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...Hollywood version of Central Europe in June, 1914, this; no baseless fabrics of cinema walls enclose it; but the perfectly solid foundations of the presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...
...Times and last week wrote a letter himself. He told the Times about calling on the Seed-Sower and concluded with all the indignation of an upright journalist: ". . . It is the first time the charge of 'misquoted' has been aimed at me and it is baseless, even though it comes from a Senator...
...Whom Mr. Levine calls "Greatest man in the world." †Baseless reports that Mr. Levine denied that he was a Jew while abroad arose from his jocular mention of the fact that he was born on St. Patrick...
...think any decent person will applaud your recommending such an utterly baseless book as "Jesus: A Myth"? I should turn that title into an exclamation about the book itself! I've read "Her Son's Wife" and "A Manifest Destiny" too, and honest, I simply can't see how your minds work to think these are "good books." Just out of curiosity I think I'll try a couple of others, shutting my eyes to choose. I predict not one in three is any good, but it so happens I now have time to waste...
...Significance. The most notable of the caricatures, Aesthete: Model 1924, first published in the maiden issue of The American Mercury, gave Mr. Boyd the intense satisfaction of stirring to obscene and frenzied anger a whole Greenwich Village nestful of half-baked literati whose baseless pretensions to significance it is Mr. Boyd's spirited but impersonal mission in life to deny. The Yeats, Moore and Stephens portraits, while of small dimensions, are of a purity which few contemporary critics could well equal. Add to these considerations the facts that Mr. Boyd is the thorough master of several languages, both dead...