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...picture of mental and physical conditions at the great French base-hospitals is restrained in comparison with the descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they overflow into the only available reaction-laughter. But if the violence is presented through the brain of some character, in whose place the audience can stand, there is no saturation point. As a loose...
...Hoover saw an indifferent Navy team, beaten by Duke and Notre Dame, convince all doubters that something is terribly wrong with Princeton this year. The score would have been bigger if the sailors had not become so overeager at times that they were penalized. Navy 31, Princeton...
...James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with lack of concern touching the welfare of their city. New York has no political, let alone moral, leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city in the world are presided over as if these were a Coney Island Mardi Gras. . . . ! Such a city as New York deserves as mayor a Dwight Morrow...
...does not function as it should. Though gangsters are an inconsiderable proportion of the whole population in America, they carry on their activities unchecked, and the only reason for that can be that at the bottom the public does not mind them, does not feel what they do is wrong. You cannot blame the police in such a case. The police are merely the instruments whereby the public sense of what is right or wrong expresses itself. . . ." Neither of the "Press Peers," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cares a hoot for "Civilization." The Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs...
...first place there can be little doubt that Lamont is acting sincerely; he believes that a wrong has been done and that it is his position to right it. Granting that a wrong has been done, it does not follow that the name of the University will be cleared by his act. Under these conditions the University administration which committed the injustice is the one to make amends. Lamont and his group would have done their duty by objecting to the policy of the administration and attempting by reasonable methods to get it changed. If they had wanted...