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...Examples of foolish, needless legislation are plentiful. In South Carolina, the playing of pool or billiards has been forbidden. The prohibition of checkers, of cards, of tiddledy-winks may well follow. Arkansas has been considering a bill abolishing bathing in the waters of the state, and minutely describing the sort of garments appropriate for public exercise. Arkansas athletes will appear in trunks extending below the knees, and short-sleeved shirts, and memories of the "ole swim in' hole" will pass with other discarded antiquities. In France and England, even the women athletes wear the convenient "shorts" condemned for everyone...
...great point of interest," Professor Chase said, "Is that in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen we see for the first time the funeral furniture of a royal Egyptian untouched and undisturbed. However", he continued, "the sort of objects usually placed in a tomb are striking rather than of deep significance, and observers are often led to undue praise because of the abundance of riches, rather than because of any deep artistic value in the finds. Although there is a possibility that the decipherment of the inscriptions found may reveal some long-desired historical records," stated Professor Chase, "the probability...
...first order, and the point concerning the selection of the poets is sophistry of the same class. A careful reading of the introduction, and the letter of Mr.Wheel Wright's which excited Mr. Enderby's efforts, will make the case quite clear to everyone. Almost any sort of reading of the poets them solves will make clear a number of things in regard to Mr. Enderby's opinions. JAMES GOVTB COZESS...
WILL SHAKESPEARE-Shakespeare is represented as a sort of divine sponge. When properly squeezed by a woman, an immortal play trickles out. Squeezing is done by the overpossessive wife whom he deserts (Winifred Lenihan); by Queen Elizabeth (Haidee Wright) ; and chiefly by the " dark lady of the sonnets " (Katherine Cornell). It is these three stirring performers who make Will Shakespeare excellent...
...Napoleon. We have no emperor to do us that service, so the members of the legal profession are taking it upon themselves. They cannot by a stroke of the pen create a uniform code of laws for this country, but they hope, without legislation, to draw up a sort of handbook of legal procedure, to which all lawyers and judges may turn as authority. If they succeed, their code will be, not law, but a consensus of the best legal opinions upon which all jurists may rely. Law in this country is badly in need of the service...