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...explain the frame of mind in which these bitter letters were written, Dr. Parks went back to an old story, to an incident in the death of Jan Huss of Prague, who lead the Bohemian reformation a hundred years before Luther. When Huss was bound to the stake after his condemnation by a Catholic Council, a peasant woman brought a little bundle of fagots and cast them on the pile that the fire might burn more fiercely. Huss understood that she did this, not because she was a wicked woman, but because she was frightened. She really believed Huss...
Fata Morgana. Here is The Moon Flower, in which Elsie Ferguson opened the preceding week (TIME, March 10), shifted back to the Hungary whence its hero came to stake his heart at Monte Carlo. In this case, the one night of love is turned on by the woman, who turns off the light. She takes the lead all through this erotic game of tag. She is a sophisticated city woman, temporarily blacklisting her husband. In her pique at him, she flies to a relative's farm and finds a young cousin alone for the night, ripe for her plucking...
...evening's set-to should illustrate the clash of the two different systems, if Coach Wanamaker runs true to form, as the Crimson mentor is almost as certain to pursue his usual scheme of pushing his attack to the limit. Whatever the strategy, the Big Three championship is at stake tonight, and both teams are well aware of the fact
...economic independence of the United States is at stake, if we do not immediately build and subsidize a commercial air-force of our own" was the warning struck by Major General M. M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, at his lecture on aviation at the Union...
...reply President Millerand made "the observance of treaties" the cornerstone of his oratorical architecture. "Behind this formula," he said, "which says what it means, there are no motives. Conscious of the magnitude of the interests at stake, as well as of the solidarity of the people, the representatives of France are equally resolved not to abandon any of the rights they are charged with protecting and to examine in a most conciliatory spirit all solutions advanced for guaranteeing them...