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...publicly attached to the paper. At the end of three years it had not gained a sufficient circulation to be selfsupporting. So she extended her guarantee of expenses for another year. Recently The Freeman made a considerable drive for circulation, which apparently was not sufficiently successful to warrant continuance...
...Being essentially interested in the maintenance of the Peking Government, because it pays or tries to pay the Boxer indemnity and foreign loans, the Diplomatic Corps was allegedly of the opinion that Dr. Sun's reported attitude was not only a dangerous precedent but a measure calculated to warrant the active intervention of the Powers...
...Home Book of Verse. Yet once he wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing moments of the action. Since mystery plays depend for their effect on secrecy, the plot...
...Legislature. This bill was to remit penalties for nonpayment of land taxes in 1923. Filipinos, like U. S. farmers, have suffered lately and are crying for aid -more however on account of crop losses than prices-but General Wood did not regard the situation as sufficiently serious to warrant abandonment of penalties for nonpayment of taxes. The Legislature is expected to rise in protest-the Governor having departed for Java. The weathermen shook their heads: " Cloudy, with more stormy weather in the offing...
Siki showed nothing to warrant the serious attention that has been accorded his abilities. He is a wild, awkward slugger. When his blows do land, they lack abrupt decision. Ills chief merit is ceaseless courage...