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...seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that he will enlist and come back to her after the War. Thus he fulfills the essential vigor of his character, ceases to be a spectator, joins the big show. Author McCready has the ability to tell a swift story swiftly, to make events and people assume spasmodic vitality. His writing is not polished but it is workmanlike, easy to read...
...April 18 et seq.). Since extraordinary legislation seemed requisite, His Imperial Majesty Tenno Hirohito convoked in haste the first Parliament which he has opened since his ascension to the throne (TIME, Jan. 3). Bills were rushed through and signed by the Tenno, authorizing the Bank of Japan to extend swift aid to banks threatened with a "run." Finally, the new Premier, Baron Tanaka, secured the appointment of Junnosuke Inouye (perhaps the most internationally prominent Japanese banker) as Governor of the Bank of Japan...
...currents. Usually he circles around a hill, taking advantage of swirling gusts of wind to gain altitude and maintain flying speed. He must know his air pockets better than any motor-propelled aviator.. Landing is difficult; but not dangerous, because the glider is neither heavy nor swift. Recently a skilled German pilot, Herr Espenlaub, landed his glider after being set loose from an airplane at a height of 5,000 feet. Many a gliding enthusiast skims the hills of Germany and France. In the U. S. they are rare...
...sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved twice except the Boston censors, who have banned the book. I am afraid that Swift, Fielding, Defoe and many of our other great English novelists would have made a scant living in this state...
Popular among sporting Europeans is the Bugatti, a smart, small, high-powered automobile capable of 90 miles per hour without threatening to disintegrate or fly off the road. Ettore Bugatti, an Italian, manufactures this swift vehicle in Alsace, France. Last week, after a long conference with Premier Mussolini about building Bugatti automobiles in an Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes...