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...Some have been beaten badly, others have been kept with difficulty in the wake of Eli craft, but each year the result has been much the same and the early war cry has changed to the mournful notes of "Next Year". Thus it is with considerable trepidation that we utter the words, "This must be the Year...
Headed by the aspiring title, "For Recreation Read The Best", a Nation article advocates the complete and utter demolishment of what is known in publishing parlance as summer fiction. The writer very wisely points out that vacation time is just exactly when one has the most leisure and inclination to read those books which in the buster winter time have been negiected. New books are not necessarily the best says the magazine--not a thought of much startling originality but nevertheless one which bears repetition...
...Majesty can and did, in his youthful seafaring days, utter commands with appropriate oaths. He is still, at 62, one of the very best bird shots in England. And, though he hunts and rides often, he is always prudent enough to choose a horse of the right weight. Thus George V is not flung off constantly, as is that really excellent horseman Edward of Wales, who, however, insists upon always riding too heavy and powerful a horse...
...player in this country-and perhaps in the world-among the few real masters of checkers. Checkers has been given, by the vast army of the uninformed, en aura of most ordinary simplicity-something to be patronizingly smiled upon by those whose assumption of superiority varies directly as their utter ignorance of what the game really is. To most persons, not particularly those in custodial care, the game of checkers is a more or less dull affair, in which one should: 1) try to take two for one or three for two; 2) try to cement the opposing forces...
...must to all judges, the temptation to utter from the bench what pass for witticisms has come at last to the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England. . . . Recently (TIME, April 25) Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider...