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...worries. Their tactics were to say nothing and do nothing until the Heimwehr had finished for them the messy job of cleaning up Socialism. Then they hoped to rally the disgruntled of all parties to the Swastika. The famed Nazi radio station in Munich that has been the bane of the Dollfuss Government for more than a year led off the campaign with a scornful speech by pale, spectacled Theodor Habicht, Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Said...
...sincerity as of invulnerbility, Dean Holmes has clouted a hornets nest with a very short handled stick. He has not much of a solution to offer, but he has sensed the difficulty, of the American feels a keen desire to perpetuate the kind of politician which is his bane; there is no better, no surer way to do it than to leave in that politician's sticky fingers his educational system. TERTIUS...
...weekly expositions, and it would give students an opportunity to observe whether anyone, professors net excluded, were able to assess intelligently a given body of information. Failure to adopt this suggestion will by no means be fatal; but it will insure a continuation of a major bane of American education, "the transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's without its passing through the mind of either...
...besides her writing she takes an active interest in the Little Theatre movement, in the formation of women's lunch clubs, is in demand as a lecturer (she will lecture in the U. S. next January'), likes walking, badminton, tennis. Other books: The World's Bane, Cat-in-the Manger, The Spinner of the Years, The Partnership, Trio...
...hospital. Madeleine, very distraught, believes that Paul no longer loves her, that her last hold on him is gone, and that the only solution is to go to Mexico, where divorces are quick and quiet. There she meets Panama Kelly, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose perennial proposals were formerly the bane of her existence, but new are most welcome, as she wants to get married in order to get out of the mess her altogether too obliging divorce lawyer concocted for her. At the wedding Paul shows up, Panama disappears like a gentleman, and Madeleine and Paul have another "appointment." Curtain...