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...notion of feminism is an admirable one for a playwright, and a best seller at the moment. The question of the hour is: how do you like your SEX? Some like, it hot, some like it cold. Philosophers scratch their heads over it, Menckens chortle jubilantly about it, newspaper reporters acknowledge their indebtedness to it, and all admit that as an issue Sex is a wow. Mr. Levy has considered it from every traditional angle. He has inserted after-dinner speeches about it staged fight talks about it, and worked up to one grand denunciation of Man by Woman...
Lion -Tamer-Philosophy of what, when and why a lion will scratch. Thin...
...white-haired earl sat down at his desk last week and wrote finis to one of the longest and most momentous careers of any living Englishman. He was Herbert Henry Asquith, First Earl of Oxford and Asquith.*By a scratch of the pen he resigned as leader of the once great Liberal party. Lord Oxford and Asquith's resignation has loomed as inevitable since he and Mr. Lloyd George quarreled openly last May as to the attitude of their party (Liberal) toward the general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq). Asquithians insisted that the general strike must be crushed...
...flung it onto the pier. His employes, heads of departments, white collar men, scrambled for it. Sanders Wertheim threw another. Again a scramble. The ship was sidling from the pier. Until the gap of brown water grew too wide, he continued to throw silver, gold, the employes continued to scratch each other, punch, prod, and squirm to pick up his largesse...
...Darwin saw discontinuity where modern zoologists and paleontologists read continuity, in the speciation of plants and animals.) Rat. Dr. William McDougall, onetime Oxonian, now Harvard's preeminent psychologist, demonstrated what an intelligent creature is the rat. Into a box with 14 latches the speaker put some cheese. Sniff, scratch, scrabble-plop, and in went a white rat, all the latches flapping open after him, to nibble contentedly. Spectators cheered. Eclipse. Professor H. H. Turner endeared himself to the British working public by agitating for a special holiday, next June 29, a holiday to be spent by patriots in flocking...