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Since the League of Nations has recently terminated the regimes of both High Commissioners (TIME, June 21 and July 5), and accorded to each warm, pulse-tingling laudation, the names of Mynheer Alfred Zimmermann and Mr. Jeremiah Smith have loomed afresh in capitals...
...Booth's feeling against Lincoln Sr. Rather the reverse: that the son of Lincoln was the rival Booth could least brook. Such a suggestion might not be far-fetched in view of Booth's capacity for insensate passion, but it would be cruel now, and futile, to dig sorrow afresh from its burial under the years...
Sylvia appears in the camp to torture him afresh. Her incredible malice brings about a bedroom scene where he strikes a drunken general in pajamas. For the troops' morale he must be removed, but still he will not clear his name, will not "blab." "There used to be," he tells his own superior, an old friend, "in families of position, a certain ... on the part of the man ... a certain . . . call it parade...
...Great God Brown. Eugene O'Neill's new play will precipitate afresh and with renewed violence the confabulations about his pre-eminence among U. S. playwrights, the reason being that his characters have been chosen right at the theatre's ticket-window instead of, as is O'Neill's custom, out of a primitive and hence foreign environment like a barge, a jungle, a boulder-strewn backwoods farm. He has reached into "ordinary" people's lives under "commonplace" circumstances and handled them with an intensity that seems deeper-rooted, more inarticulate, more confusing than...
...although it is connected with the more ancient (and heretical) custom of celebrating the cycle of seven sabbatical years as a period when debts were remitted and property went back to its original owners. The first formal Jubilee was proclaimed by the bull of Boniface VIII, in 1300, granting afresh "great remission and indulgence for sins" to all who made pilgrimages that year to Rome and the basilica of the Prince of Apostles. The interim between Jubilees varied from 25 to 100 years; but was finally fixed at 25 years by Paul II, in the 15th Century. In the 19th...