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...only they mattered and the day in all its May glory was naught. Note books, bearing no sign of service, lay scattered on the desk; Anatole France was there in "The crime of Sylvestro Bonnard"; and somewhere there also was Omar Khayyam, the winter sage. Then, sandwiched, unhappily it seemed, between a man of science on one side and a philosopher on the other was "Alice in Wonderland...
Meanwhile Eleutherios Venizelos lay, broken and distrait, in a Paris clinic, far from his old sage self. He complained: "Italy let me down. If Italy had not prevented my friend, General Nicholas Plastiras, from joining me, I might today be master of Greece." Speculative this statement was, but fact it was that had Italy not given Venizelos timely sanctuary, he would now be in a position similar to that of the two silent generals...
...effectiveness of several descriptions can be gleaned from the following passage, which epitomizes Mr. Blake's style, and the spirit in which he writes. "We killed rattlesnakes, big ones, the mottled brown diamond backs that were everywhere, among the rocks, on the glaring open salt fiats, in the sage country. I shudder to think, of those ugly reptiles coiled and ratting, ready to strike venom into a man's leg and turn his red blood a vivid, poisonous green. And I feel the cold shivers on my spine when I realize that I stepped within a foot...
...other publishers have been finding out that funnypapers are potent moneymakers (TIME, Feb. 18). And at the age of 67, the Sage of Emporia has long since learned to compromise. In excellent health last fortnight, Editor White issued the week-end edition of his newspaper with not one but 29 comics in a gaudy 16-page tabloid. Moreover, the entire news section was printed in tabloid to conform. It had taken a brash young salesman for United Feature Syndicate six months to change the White mind but now, reminded of his oldtime vow, Editor White was ready to say: "That...
...unsuccessful attempt at fanciness. Disguised under a bewildering variety of names, for which the French usually have to take a new and unpleasant responsibility, old stand-bys like stew are eventually discovered. Only initiates, through long association, remember that Milanaise, Fricandeau, etc., are inevitably connected with certain dishes. One sage diner successfully adopted the simple plan of steering a proportionally wider berth, the longer the French name...