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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tessa fell in love at her one brief glimpse of the sleek visitor. During the two nights and a day that he was closeted with Rennie, Tessa the Seductive, the Disdainful, was even reduced to writing him poetry and in her abandon asked Toes, who rolled with mirth, what rhymed with "spaniel." That was why Kim sarcastically called him the Dark Gentleman of the Sonnets and part of the reason that Boris nearly ripped out his silky black throat; would have, too, but for the Savory Legs (Italian gardener). The Dark Gentleman flaunted his scars to the French poodle next...
Sirs: As you state (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 24) few doctors abandon medicine to become famed in other fields; but your list of those otherwise famed is so inadequate that I'm having the audacity to name a few- Rabelais, Agassiz, Schiller, Keats, Goldsmith, Steinmetz, John Locke, Mungo Park, Sir Auckland Geddes, S. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Hergesheimer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry C. Rowland and now Warwick Deeping. The enumeration might be continued, but these will suffice. THOMAS H. MERKLE...
Pope Pius: ". . . Indecency of women's fashions . . . need to abandon certain tolerances in dances and fashions, unworthy not only of Christians but of any creature with a feeling of human dignity...
Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" will be offered as the spring production this year. The presentation of this comedy will be unusual; for it has been decided to abandon the traditional costumes and action, and to present it as a thoroughly up-to-date farce...
...almost a month since a wave of international consciousness swept over the United States and so aroused the national conscience as to force the administration to abandon an ostensibly imperialistic policy toward Nicaragua. It seemed at the time a signal victory for public sentiment and for a public acumen not blinded by Secretary Kellogg's red flag waving. It also seemed that the Nicaraguans were to be allowed to fight it out among themselves or that some non-partisan steps toward mediation would be taken...