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...Shepton Mallet jail, Somerset, England, a hangman's noose tightened, last week, and snapped out the life of John Lincoln, a British soldier, who last Christmas Eve murdered a certain traveling salesman whose house he was attempting to rob. Some 50,000 English humanitarians signed a petition that the execution be delayed for a few days until the condemned man's father might arrive from Ceylon. The petition was denied. John Lincoln's father is the notorious Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, in 1910 a Liberal M. P. for Darlington, during the War an international spy for both England and Germany...
...unusual. In truth it savors of the centuries and breeds remembrances of other novels which since times antique have sent a little girl from the country on, on and up--and watch out for the Butter and Egg man--on, on and into the theatre. But this is to rob the first chapter of its mystery. There is mystery there. If one were a Christopher North, one would add--"the mystery of why one reads the things at all"; as long as one is not, the mere intrigue which always associates itself with new print and new paper...
...being done. Colds and moral turpitude are quite the thing, positively the dernier cri. So this column must suffer--from a Cold-in-the-Head. That and the asperin which goes with it. Funny thing, asperin. Asperin plus Irene Bordoni makes "Mmmmm--Do I Love you?" rob the brain of any efficiency what so ever. But probably some one will think this is polyphonic prose or a time table and get something out of it, so after all what...
...theory football is good for the players, for the general body of undergraduates, and for the alumni. For the players, football serves to build character, to inspire personal courage, and to develop true sportsmanship; but present overemphasis tends to rob the game of all pleasure and make it a grim and serious business. For the general body of undergraduates, football is a cohesive force and represents dramatically the ideals of the college; but present overemphasis tends to give it a false importance which-distorts the students' sense of collegiate values. For alumni, football is a magnet, drawing graduates back...
...Under the iron rule of the proletarian dictatorship freedom still exists in Russia. Right here in Moscow, despite Red guards and secret police, freedom runs rampant, wild as wolves and as savage-a freedom anarchistic-free to rob, free to fight, free to kill, free (as needs often must) to starve...