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Dorothy Parker patented (though she did not invent) the trick, O. Henryish finale: the sudden, exasperated curse of a woman who simply cannot stand things any longer. But it is some years since she began popping out these oaths; you expect them now, and feel a little cheated when she fails you. She fails often in Death and Taxes, is sometimes reminiscent of minor-but-masculine Poet A. E. Housman, more often of Any Sentimentalist. A Parthian poetess, her chief claim to attention still resides in her parting kick...
...April, Bonus loan application slacked off to 12,000 per week. Veterans' Administrator Hines then announced: "The job's about done." He estimated the total outlay at $1,050,000,-ooo. During May, however, there was a new and sudden spurt of loan applications. Last week they were pouring in again, at the rate of 35,000 per week. Best explanation for the new spurt was that, whereas needy veterans constituted the first big rush for loans, those employed and not in need were now coming forward to borrow while the Government's offer still stood. Last...
...haired, bespectacled, clad in rough homespun and a towering collar, was Auguste Piccard, 47, Swiss professor of physics in the University of Brussels. The other was his assistant, Charles Kipfer, 20 years his junior. On their heads were baskets stuffed with pillows, to cushion them in case of a sudden drop of their gondola. They had been preparing for this ascension since last summer, had tried and failed last autumn (TIME, Sept. 22) and were now aloft largely because of the backing of King Albert's favorite Fund for Scientific Research. Their purpose: to study the intensity of cosmic rays...
...situations are scarcely so felicitous. The authors have told the story of a young married couple modest means who inherit, a considerable sum upon the demise of the lately maligned relative. Previous to this there has been much talk condemning all forms of snobbery. Naturally the sudden windfall of shekels goes directly to the heads of the young people, and they become the incarnation of their own vitriolic epithets. In doing so they make considerable asses of themselves in the eyes of their old friends, although a representative Boston audience looks on with good-natured indulgence. Of course, the third...
...religious leaders of Rochester, N. Y. † Last month Dr. Clarence True Wilson, publicly criticizing the personnel of the Wickersham Commission, characterized Commissioner Ada Comstock as "President of a woman's college [Radcliffe] which has been known as one of the wettest and one of the smokiest. . . ." **By sudden, unexpected fire drills at dead of night do alert Mt. Holyoke officials sometimes check up on their students' whereabouts...