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...news swept over the radio. Country dames, undisturbed since "Boney" pranced on the sands of Boulogne, barricaded themselves in remote closets. One sheriff from the north counties telephoned the Mayoress of Newcastle to learn what the constabulary was doing to frustrate the Red menace. But he was only carrying coals to Newcastle; for the Mayoress probably wanted to know herself...
...great upheaval? What its accomplishments? The purpose was to discover whether the English have a sense of humor. The accomplishment was to discover that but one man in all "merrie England" did have a sense of humor, and that man was the very imaginative and reverend. Father Ronald Knox, radio broadcaster extraordinary. Although this is a rather conclusive indictment of English humor, few Americans would answer for the unanimity of laughter, if such a prank were played in Boston...
Miss Evelyn Nesbit was "feeling slightly blue on New Year's eve." Instead of trying radio or reminiscences--of which she probably has sufficient--she picked up a volume of Schopenhauer. After a few chapters--Miss Nesbit tried suicide...
...depending on one's philosophy--the suicide failed. So she lives to point the moral to a new version of an old story. And the readers of many a paper throughout the country are going to tune in for the future on more cheerful subjects. Since as yet the radio maintains the doctrine which the lady now expounds...
...This is an age of gasoline and jazz, of the movie and the radio, of the new woman and her liberty. . . ." Dr. Smith decided that college matriculants simply are not fitted to live college life. They are, he could but conclude, just irresponsible, ill-licked cubs. They should examine themselves and try to exert their faculties, not primarily upon problems in algebra and Greek roots, but upon manhood and the wise conduct of their lives...