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...Significance. There are in the world a few unsensitive people for whom the mellow, wry blarney of Author Donn-Byrne has no meaning at all. These are pitiable folk, for they will not understand the astonishing thing he has now done-written a book of modern times with all the glamour upon it that was on Messer Marco Polo, The Wind Bloweth and his other tales of days long gone. His warmest admirers will be quickest to see that he has not done this rich thing without overdoing it occasionally-slipping over briefly into unredeemed melodrama, laying...
...brother shuts us up in a glass cage. Every experience we have serves to educate us in the ways of life. If an institution or a government forbids us to have these experiences, we are cut off from a whole part of life, and cannot hope to understand it. We must have our temptations, and we must fall, if need be, before we are fitted to meet them evenly in life. The Volstead Act is only another restriction on experience, and without being a hypocrite I cannot but urge every red blooded, virile man to disregard prohibition...
Permit me again to call your attention to the misuse of the word "Jew," in TIME which in the main is so carefully edited that such an error repeated is hard to understand...
...TIME of April 19, p. 38, col. 3, your book reviewer mentions "Jew manufacturers." I take it that he did not mean manufacturers of Jews but rather Jewish manufacturers. Is it so hard for men who understand English to realize that the word "Jew" is a noun and that "Jewish" is the adjective...
...begged Bishop Manning to allow her to remind him that only a few years ago he had refused to permit her name, the name of a divorcee, to appear in the yearbook of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. "What I fail to understand," wrote Mrs. Belmont, "is, why this change on your part, dear Bishop. ... I am still a divorced woman...