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...form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According to newspaper reports, people clamored and paid admission for the purpose of curtseying and kissing the hand of these pretenders (reference to the recent visit of the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (TIME, Dec. 15) in a manner so un-American that it would have been shocking were it not so ridiculously stupid...
...present, but they are explained as Rousseau explained them, by the corrupting influence of society and training. Rousseau and this most democratic of professors will be genial spirits in the next world, and the professor runs the risk of being branded, along with the amiable Jean-Jacques, "un fou enrage" in this...
...bound round (as Ridley and Latimer were bound round a stake) the novel and hotherto unused idea of mistaken identity." Is it to laugh. How could you, Mr. Critik? Is it unknown to you that the mistaken identify theme is decidedly not novel? In fact, it is absolutely un-novel except to a native critic. The archives of the library (Coolidge Corner) reveal that this positively much-used theme constitutes the chief source of the otherwise inexplicable development of the Incas, not many years before native dramatic criticism was permanently established on a simple basis in Kame-Bridge by Hyppopatrot...
...Amendment. There is but one principal argument which has been used for the Amendment. Child labor is a social and economic evil, un- healthful for children and a hindrance to their education; the aim of the proposed Amendment is to prevent work for those too young and to prevent too long hours, night work and dangerous work for older children...
...poet, starring Ida Rubenstein, famed dancer, staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Salome, Orientale (Pavlowa ballet), Cleopatra and Scheherezade...