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...often there is a good one. It is probably the lure of discovery that keeps the habitual reader going. One can always pick up the newest offering with trembling excitement. However, in the case of Reginald Wright Kauffman's most recent temptation there is no cause for excitement. "Beg Pardon, Sir!" is not an intrusion upon the low average of its contemporaries...
...beg to inform you of two untrue statements printed concerning the Secretary of the Navy in the last number [March 11] of your magazine...
George Bernard Shaw, in a letter to the London Observer, published last week, said: "May I beg my worshipers not to scramble too blindly for alleged Shaviana? Otherwise they may share the fate of one of their number in America who just paid $1,500 for a copy of Locke's 'Essay on Human Understanding.'" The "Essay" was advertised as being profusely annotated by Shaw. But the annotations were those of Shaw's father-in-law, Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books...
Describing the work of the Committee, Dr. Hamilton said, "It meets informally twice a year at Geneva and discusses the work done since its last meeting and the new problems which have presented themselves. In the early years of the League we had to encourage and beg countries to let us help them, but now we are besieged with so many requests that it is a matter of choosing the ones we will deal with...
Sixty cents? I beg YOUR pardon. Huh? Bill that guy swapped checks on me. That's all right, he'll get it in the neck tomorrow. In French. We got a rotten section man, did I tell...