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...advertising, revolutionized England's literary publicity with boldfaced, importunate copy. No slouch on the mechanical side of the business, Publisher Gollancz took a lesson from German Tauchnitz, standardized the binding and typography of his product. Since the world fell on troubled times, he has had the wit to add to his large general list a lively line of pink political writings which have made his firm the semi-official organ of Britain's intellectual Left. Although Publisher Gollancz says he expects to do no better than make ends meet with the Left Book Club, its membership is thoroughly...
Readers who are looking for kinky-haired darky side-splitters and dry drawls of whittled wit will be sadly disappointed by Humor of the Old Deep South. They would have right on their side if they called the title a misnomer. Not primarily a collection of famed or fameworthy anecdotes but a regional anthology. Compiler Hudson's book is an academic barn-full of curious gleanings picked up from old Southern almanacs, church histories, colonial archives. State records, local newspapers, magazines. Professor Hudson's cross-section of the pre-Civil War Deep South, which he calls Misslouala (Mississippi...
Hence last week there was neither a Chamber of Deputies nor a Senate to wit ness the envelope's opening. A Chamber election was run off with comparative decorum (two killed, 50 wounded) four days after King Fuad died. Result was an overwhelming victory for the Wafd which clinched 118 seats at once, expected when all votes are counted to hold nearly 200 of the Chamber's 235 seats...
...Read ing, a blonde girl in a slip with High Tide of the Flesh on her knee; Sleeping Girl, another blonde superbly relaxed. Such fleshiness caused lusty Painter Reginald Marsh to exult in the exhibition's catalog: "Everywhere in these paintings is luxury. There is wit and a fine, fat magnificence. . . . Miss Duller has painted this clean, opulent world with a terrible power...
...blistered the incompetent with his scorn and brought shame to the cheeks of the ill-mannered or the inconsiderate. To those with inquiring minds he has pointed out roads which they have followed with happiness in succeeding years. With the hammer of scholarship and the tongs of wit he has beaten the plays of Shakespeare into the reluctant minds of adolescence...