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...appointment as Governor-General, plain John Buchan M. P. was having tea in the House of Commons when the division bell rang and a waiter warned him that he should go in and vote. For the merest instant a flicker of pride played on His Excellency's bloodless lips. "I ceased to be a member of this House," he told the waiter, "at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...When first published in the regular columns of the CRIMSON in 1925, it caused widespread favorable comment, both in the daily press and in publications of other colleges. Prior to its appearance, the student's sources of information concerning his prospective courses were limited and haphazard. There was the bloodless and formal description in the catalogue which described the course but which in the nature of things could tell nothing of its practical soundness, of its enjoyability, or of the comparative capability of the instructor. And there was the vague body of opinion--a roommate's a roommate's friend...
Quite consistent with his character was the bloodless revolution subsequent to the breakdown of the Central Powers in 1918, and the comparative peace which reigned up to 1933, despite the fact that Austria, unable to exist in economic independence, was in continuous financial and moral distress...
...Government is neither to the left nor the right, but straight through the middle!" So roared Premier Gueorguieff three weeks ago after he had set up a Fascist Dictatorship following a sudden bloodless coup d'etat (TIME, May 21; June 4). Last week Through-the-Middle Gueorguieff struck straight at Bulgaria's most ancient ache, her bloodthirsty Macedonian minority, by issuing an order prohibiting private ownership of arms and munitions, and announcing that a house-to-house search would follow. Hundreds of Bulgarians did not wait; the weapons dropped mysteriously into the gutters...
...that U. S. traditions have long since burned themselves out, that U. S. modern life, as opposed to Europe's, is rootless. "Old American things are old as nothing else anywhere in the world is old, old without majesty, old without mellowness, old without pathos, just shabby and bloodless and worn out. . . . Something infinitely old and disillusioned peers out between the rays of George Ade's wit, and Mrs. Wharton's intellectuality positively freezes the fingers with which one turns her page. . . . Think of the arctic frigidity of Mr. Paul Elmer More's criticism...