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...will readily understand that under the conditions, when we must go to our friends and the public for financial support in order to rebuild Main Hall; it is a serious matter to us to give out the impression that our loss is entirely covered by insurance. May I ask, therefore, that you kindly correct this error in your next issue? If you will oblige us by granting this request and place your correction in a prominent position in your magazine so that it will be noticed and read by most of your readers we shall greatly appreciate...
...bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some...
Even if the charges against Gladstone are true, what of it? Mr. Gladstone's morals did not affect his statesmanship; they are unimportant, for his statesmanship is what lives today. It is a characteristic of petty minds merely to seize what they can understand; and it seems that hundreds of petty minds must be writing biography today. Those that are afflicted with a conscience argue that their dissections are merely application of the scientific method in the search for truth. But there is truth and Truth. It is truth to say that Walt Whitman had perhaps half a dozen illegitimate...
...episode has caused much consternation among those who knew her at Urbana, where she had adopted bobbed hair, short skirts, and other marks of the superior western civilization. They find it hard to understand how, after being exposed to the cultural advantages of the Illinois university, she could so far revert to barbarism as to marry a prince of her own race, and what is more, to stay by his side when he is in danger. There are some, however, who admire the Princess for doing so, when she might be living in the luxury of Hollywood, writing...
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