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...murders he retired at 64, five years ago (TIME, July 8, 1929). All these gentlemen were used to unraveling a shrewd, intelligent, well-constructed plot. Last week they suddenly found themselves flung into the middle of a nightmare of murders, suicides, plots and recriminations that any of them would blush to submit to the editor of a detective story magazine. Assembled at Dijon, they went down to the railroad track where the crushed body of Judge Albert Prince was found, puffed their pipes and pondered while Paris-Soir waited for their discoveries. Meanwhile the official agencies investigating what was rapidly...
...letter is not to defend the particular sex questionnaire, with which I have no connection. I have no idea how much scientific validity and value such an investigation may have. But I do wish to call attention to the rotten attitude of Harvard officialdom toward sex. Why do they blush the minute sex is brought out into the open? Why do they insist on pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar? As for the questionnaire, Harvard will...
...eccentric and unladylike behavior. On a visit to the King of France and in the presence of the entire court "she often rested her feet on a chair as high as the one on which she was sitting." laughed at jokes in the theatre which should have made her blush, swore freely whenever she felt like it. When she finally died in Rome she ordered that her epitaph should read simply: "Christina lived for 63 years." Idaho Dreiser
...Ambassador's plane landed him in Miami, exiled Cuban foes of President Grau embarrassed Mr. Welles by hailing him as one who had "done his best" to oust the President. An impulsive anti-Grau senorita made the Ambassador blush by flinging her arms around his neck and whispering something...
...first blush, the orthodox economists and experts thought they saw only confusion in the plan for a commodity standard, but they overlooked a much more essential point in the President's policy. It is his rejection of the idea of devaluing the dollar by changing the gold content at this time...