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...Farewell to Arms. Laurence Stallings was a co-author of What Price Glory and of Rainbow. Best that can be said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would...
Travel magazines have usually followed a rich but static pattern of photographs and articles designed to lure the reader to places far away. Into the field last week came the first monthly issue of Holiday, bringing a refreshing atmosphere of play to the subject of travel...
Aware of his probable selection on the morrow, Dean Cross went peacefully to bed after serving notice on party leaders that he would not accept their nomination unless he were given a free hand to reorganize the static Democratic State Committee by turning out its chairman James...
...casket business is no static affair. A flux of styles from decade to decade keeps things moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk...
...avenues to improvement opened up in this outstanding work are so well marked that Dr. Little's denunciation of the stagnation of college faculties and governing bodies arouses sympathetic agreement. It is obvious that the colleges are static and unprogressive, not because they do not know where to go, but because the present situation is too comfortable. The wealth of his examples showing the narrowness, prejudice, and unproductive conservatism of the institutions of higher learning as a whole amazes even those who are in close contact with the most clamorous evils...