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...Newton, well known Philadelphian, book collector and essayist, here presents, with the assistance of numerous immortal shades, four scenes from the life of that burly Doctor, hater of oatmeal, Scotchmen, professional politicians and cant, who is one of the few among the dead celebrities of English literature whom, via Boswell's life, we can know as if we had met him on the street or suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian talk and incident together on a thin thread of drama...
...Cannan's attention for the last ten years or more. The depressing environment of Thrigsby-a dingy manufacturing town-and a certain ingrown Puritanical stodginess of character combine to crush the Lawries and their connections under the weight of their own respectability. Some try to escape-James Lawrie via unintelligible humor and the pothouse-Annette, his daughter-in-law, by having quantities of children- Stephen, his youthful grandson, by retiring into his own entirely unchildish mind. The struggles of these and others against Destiny and the respectable furnish the theme of the book...
...threatened to resign. Reports from Washington indicate that the Administration considers the whole matter a bad business and will place no constraints on Governor Towner. The situation in Porto Rico is expected to add to the interest of President Harding's visit there on his return from Alaska via Panama in August...
Alexander Smith Cochran, millionaire carpet manufacturer and second husband of the now Ganna Walska McCormick, whilom opera star: " In my private yacht, Restless, I arrived in Honolulu from England via Panama. The Restless cost $500,000. She is on her maiden voyage around the world...
...beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them, after hair-breadth adventures?they are shot back violently to earth via Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying its civilization. Finally, he returns?it is the only act of service he can do Utopia, for it will assist the ends of Utopian science returns, unwilling, to the old, individualistic earth of crowds and hate and private greed...