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...Chicago Daily Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," is not afraid to place itself in famous company. Recently it took its stand beside Dean Jonathan Swift, master of the most devastating satire ever known. When Swift wrote his Modest Proposal for disposing of excess Irish population by feeding children of the Irish poor as hors d'oeuvre to the well-to-do, he was taken seriously by his countrymen and for a time ostracized. The Tribune, far from profiting by the Dean's experience, printed instructions on How to Kill a Child...
...English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik-a perfect specimen of what used to be called a hammock book. HOMELAND-Margaret Hill McCarter-Harper ($2.00). Jack Lorton, before he went to France, thought Leslie Jannison was going to be his own little Dream-Girl-yes, that was the way he talked...
...swift decline in stock prices has tended to distract public attention from the more gradual but continuous fall in the prices of commodities...
...comparative steadiness of prices after the unexpected death of President Harding has been all the more remarkable for coming in the midst of an obviously " bear" stock market. This lack of excitement in the financial district over the dangers possible in so swift a succession in the Presidential chair can be mainly attributed to a strong feeling of confidence in President Coolidge, increased by his wise announcement that the late President Harding's policies and Cabinet would not be changed. The only uneasiness which the painful event created in business circles was in connection with the Republican nomination...
...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...