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...absolutely not!" declared Miss Lillie, not without considerable vehemence. "They can see a joke just as well and just as quickly as an American. One country's ideas of another country are often quite amasing. You very seldom see the American's idea of a typical Englishman with his monocle, or, for that matter, the Englishman's idea of a typical American with his chewing gum. Both have their short comings, but one doesn't mind them if one possesses a sense of humor, does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Oh Please!" Star Admits Ability to "Dress a Good Game of Golf"--England Has Little on U.S., But Home Is Home | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Quarterly, a publication of the Alumnae Association of that college, is an article by no less a person than Le Baron R. Briggs, entitled "Not Always to the Swift". Here one is encouraged to encourage Radcliffe, remembering that "the race is not always to" the hare, and that seldom does the tortoise lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RACE QUESTION | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Canberra | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...arbitration and amity" with Austria, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. The one country lacking to complete the ring of treaties encircling Jugoslavia was Hungary. Therefore, last week, when the Italo-Hungarian treaty* was signed, the Fascist press burst into such a eulogy of Il Duce as it has seldom before achieved. But what did Hungary get out of this pen scratching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poem, Treaty | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

This year the exodus may be unusually glad, for students may use their vacation to celebrate Easter as well as Patriot's Day. How seldom it is that indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIND OF SPRINGTIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

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