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...Greeted Postmaster General Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, when he appeared in the House last week, with Laborite shouts of "Shoot him! Put him against a wall...
This was the exuberant reply of British Labor to a Tory speech made the day before by Sir William at Croydon, in which he shouted: "Certain Socialist (Laborite) leaders are going to end up with their backs against a wall and a firing squad before them if they try to hamper British troops in any Chinese...
...rode down on the subway reading a copy of TIME and got off at Wall Street recently. Since my age is but 59, I resent the implication of "old," if I really am the man seen by Mrs. Phipps...
Eleven years ago, the late Mr. Comstock's New York Society for the Suppression of Vice had to find a new chief. Mr. Sumner, then a Wall Street lawyer, landed the job. He guesses he inclined to it because his ancestors were Puritans, one was a Mayflower passenger, and because obscene pictures were twice showed to him by rowdies at high school. He moved into the cosy office in West 22nd Street, where the basement is jammed with part of Crusader Comstock's 61 carloads of assorted obscenity. He strove cheerfully to administer well...
French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants...