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Herbert Bayard Swope (executive editor of the New York World) and Mrs. Swope had their noses broken, needed surgical stitching, when their motor was sideswiped by an oncoming motor that edged over to the wrong side of Central Ave., Yonkers. The Swope chauffeur and Colyumist Heywood Broun of the World were uninjured in the front seat. Three days later the New York Triplex Safety Glass Co. Inc. shrewdly published an advertisement in the New York World, Times, Herald-Tribune, reproducing the Herald-Tribune's account of the accident (with all names but the Swopes' deleted), with the catchline...
...faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life would be not only simpler but pleasanter on the sun drenched shores of Fanua...
...Early Worm" has the misfortune to get off on the wrong foot, whichever that may be, and for an alarmingly long period offers little or nothing. Then at a flick of the pen, or a particularly sound jab on the typewriter key the work gets under way, and one realizes that after all the worst is not to come but is behind in previous volumes Mr. Benchley has exhibited a particular inclination to clearing up any misunderstandings which may be current as to the why, wherefore and general makeup of the American family. He has taken us for rides...
...come which surrounds the efforts of the organization. Another potential factor in the lack of college success which the Dramatic Club has met might lie in the direction and training of the plays direction which has been, of late, merely capable. At any rate there is something vitally wrong, and an attempt to analyze that wrong is not out of place. Destructive criticism, while not offering any improvements, can at least awaken the Dramatic Club to the possibilities which are within its grasp. Whatever or whoever is to blame for the decline of this body, there is no doubt...
...seats at entertainments to men who "and gained a victory in the foot races, the pentathlon, the wrestling matches, in that brutal sport, boxing, or in the most fearful of all contests, the pancratium, which is a hand-to-hand fight with nothing barred." He, believed it was wrong to field the city's athletes from the common stores, and to give him a trophy as a gift from the municipality...