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These are tales of the Potato Face Blind Man, who likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers...
Taboo and Spinning. Up to the time Alfred Emanuel Smith ran for President, U. S. journalists were prevented by taboo from writing religious facts into political despatches, even if they thought them paramount. Taboo keeps off the front page Mr. Gandhi's use of Christian acts as a weapon against men with Christian beliefs. Only in exceptional publications like Asia (U. S. monthly) has the religious side of India's passive battle with England been described at graphic length by men like "Upton Close" (pseudonym of Joseph Washington Hall, probably the greatest historian of contemporary Asia, certainly the one closest...
Everyone vaguely understands that textiles are one of England's key industries, that India is this industry's key customer, and that if Mr. Gandhi could fire his countrymen with a sufficient resolve to buy not one snippet more of English cloth but to spin and weave their own, the result would be even more poverty-pinched faces in Lancashire than one sees there already (TIME...
...empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having shot down 68 enemy planes before they...
...About the turn of the century there was a change of feeling regarding drama. People began to feel that the stage was no place to spin a yarn. It was insisted that a good play must present a situation of intrinsic importance. The principle that a play must be important gained great headway, spreading with increasing rapidity after...