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...Writer J. B. Priestley, rich and liberal Sir Richard Acland and socialist M.P. Vernon Bartlett. the Common Wealth is demanding that one-third of the House of Commons resign and stand for re-election...
...result of Editor Mencken's 25 years of "literary scavenging," this is one of the rare books that deserve the well-worn greeting "Here at last." No greater nor more useful than Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or Burton Stevenson's Home Book of Quotations, its 1,347 close-printed, double-columned pages are nevertheless packed with entertainment, edification and some valuable innovations. The quotations are dated, whenever possible, back to the first man who uttered them. They are arranged not under their authors but "under many more rubrics than any other such work can show." With careful...
...surprised to learn-and to corroborate in Bartlett -that the National Anthem reads not "in triumph shall wave" but "Oh, long may it wave." He will discover, if he did not know it, that "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is not from the Bible but is a folk improvement on it dating from about A.D. 1,000. He will be glad to see that Editor Mencken enshrines his file-tongued old friend James Huneker ("He died without owing me a cent"); that he respects the gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that...
...Paul D. Bartlett, for a study of the effect of resonance on the properties of trity compounds...
...Tozzer will lecture on Anthopology; at 7:15 o'clock, Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin, on Sociology; and at 8:15 o'clock, Associate Professor Russell Gibson, on Geology. Tomorrow, Associate Professor Francis O. Matthiessen, of the History and Literature Department, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, of Economics, and Paul D. Bartlett, associate professor of Chemistry, will speak on the same schedule...