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Such unstinted praise would be welcome if it had not been learned long ago to accept Mr. Arlen's statements with many grains of salt. Nor does the fact that he has come to this country to write conduce to a whole-hearted reliance on the sincerity of the author. There are more ways than one of undermining sales-resistance. But Americans, like all true bibliophiles, should read between the lines. There would probably be seen there a crudely overt attempt by the trimmer of the Green Hat to insure a market for his latest millinery creations among Romantic Ladies...
...unwilling. Whereas the resulting mental dyspopsis has never yet produced a Carlyle and Whereas, dyspopsis or no dyspopsis, everyone is pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone he can do nothing. As a Gandhiary incendiary, this pinch of salt would more to smiles, not action. Yet speed is necessary, for the Blue Abomination already has Athena by the throat...
After the War Lord Reading returned to the India of his cabin boy days as viceroy. Events obliged him to detain both the "Ali Brothers" (Mohammedans) and Mahatma Gandhi in jail, also to impose the hated salt tax against the will of the Indian Assembly, but his "judicial fairness" is remembered. In 1926 he attained the marquessate, may die a duke...
...January 17, he will talk at the Harvard Club of San Diego, followed by a talk at the Harvard Club of Los Angeles on Monday, January 19. He will then proceed to the Harvard Club of San Francisco, speaking there on Wednesday, January 21. He plans to stop at Salt Lake City on Friday, January 23, at Denver on Tuesday, January 26, and at the Harvard Club of Omaha on Wednesday, January 27. He is scheduled to speak at the Harvard Club of Washington on Wednesday, February 4, arriving by way of Cincinnati, and Richmond, Virginia...
Tree. Flying the mail between Salt Lake City and Pasco, Wash., for Varney Air Lines, Pilot Jack O'Brien passes over a tiny settlement in the treeless desert near the Idaho-Utah boundary. Always a group of children and their teacher run out from the schoolhouse to wave at their "friend"; always Pilot O'Brien waggles his wings in salute. Last week, to the joy and amazement of the youngsters, Pilot O'Brien circled the schoolhouse at low altitude, dropped a tree, flew on. Looking back, he could see the children seize it, drag it toward...