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...essay on mixed marriage and discussed it with his Japanese wife, who pointed out that he was the product of such a marriage, asked if he considered himself a poor product. When Hearn confessed that he thought he was, she asked: "What about our children? Is it right to acclaim to the world the poor product of such a marriage?" Thereupon Hearn destroyed his manuscript. "I think of that manuscript now," his son remarks frankly, "and imagine all sorts of things...
This week's Wednesday review day program at the University is worthy of marked attention, offering two of the year's outstanding films, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Claude Rains' excellent "Crime Without Passion." The merits of both these pictures have received widespread acclaim with almost universal approval from the critical sections of the press...
This, we submit, is just as it should be. Certainly, it is not the least important function of a university to preserve for itself and its students an attitude of mind that is above partisanship and eager to acclaim human worth wherever found. American can be proud that its oldest university is one that never sidesteps this duty...
...nonstop to Paris. He carried 425 gal. of fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...
Never perhaps had a British Foreign Secretary departed amid greater misgiving. If Sir John triumphed, he would deserve double acclaim, for he was considered last week to have pretty well bungled things in advance. In the House of Commons, where he had dallied persistently last week, refusing invitations to confer with the Premiers of France and Italy, Sir John created an impression so unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission...