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Happily, the play does not at the same time sink into the sloughs which is the grave of so many who strive to tread the tremendous and slippery path of the golden mean. Whether this is due alone to the quality of the acting which lifts the audience safely over the soft places, it is difficult to say. Enough that the fact remains that the work of the small cast of five is practically without exception excellent...
...British penny press blazed with headlines: BRITISH CREW IN IRONS −BRITISH SKIPPER CHALLENGES U.S. CUTTER!−I'LL NOT SURRENDER!−100 SHOTS SINK BRITISH SHIP...
Great Britain waived certain rights of the high seas to the American Government in recognizing the twelve-mile limit and in permitting the American coast guard cutters to enforce the laws of their country in the waters about Bermuda and Jamaica. But they did not include the right to sink ships that are flying the flag of their merchant marine. The limits to the bounds of courtesy are very much short of blowing holes in suspected schooners...
...White House last week went men great in the law. They took to President Hoover their knowledge, experience and advice for his law enforcement investigation. A trained engineer about to sink a new shaft in quest of buried facts, the President plotted his operation cautiously. Six or nine worthy men had first to be found, men without passion or prejudice on prohibition. Their descent must be well charted-where to break ground, how far down to go, what machinery to use to bring up the ugly ore of crime...
...flower, experiencing birth, growth, decay, death. Our own Western civilization he declares to be in the phase of decay, characterized by material expansion, effete spirituality. Collapse is imminent in perhaps 300 years. But by that time another human group will be unwittingly generating a new civilization to flourish and sink in its own long turn. Herein lies the refutation of the charge of pessimism applied to Spengler by lesser minds. Regarding civilizations as organisms, he is no more the pessimist than any man who recognizes the transient nature of all organic life...