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...which made unhappy those newspapermen who revere Mr. Sullivan. They could say it was remarkable that a man who writes so much is so seldom wrong. But, of late, too many were saying that he is becoming more of a partisan, less of a newspaperman...
...December, many a critic predicted a do-nothing session. "It will be lucky," said some, "if it passes the appropriation bills." As March 4 approached, it appeared that this session, unfamed, unsung, had accomplished more than any short session of Congress since Woodrow Wilson's first administration and seldom missed an opportunity to defy, vex, prod the Calvin Coolidge Adminstration. Important doings...
...Jewish mental, ethical and religious equipment is of a simple rugged type which takes its set so rapidly that a Jewish boy is considered "of age" at 13. The more delicate and fragile European type seldom takes a mature set before the age of 24. This means eleven years' advantage in hardness and maturity on the side of a Jewish boy whose competitor is a European type...
...Significance. Napoleon is always good biographical material, but seldom has he been exhibited in so dramatic, episodic and psychological a book as Mr. Ludwig's. Europeans were agreeably amazed in 1925 (when the book first appeared) that a German had written so sympathetically of Napoleon. Now, in the able translation of Eden and Cedar Paul, it is well on its way to be the outstanding biography...
...Guidebooks list it as "claiming to be first class"; visitors seldom agree with the claim...