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Bread And Fire-Charles Rumford Walker - Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). "You know," she said, "the one thing people can never forgive in one is a betrayal of one's class." Harris Burnham, hearing his aunt thus condemn his excursion into socialistic journalism, replies by going to work with the hunkies in a copper mill. His is a hard-muscled method of thought. He refuses to betray himself by betraying humanity in order to remain loyal to an artificial class distinction. The, to many persons, pleasantly remote life of working people interests him like a bride. Feeling this alien devotion...
...last page. Instead, at the bottom of the last page: "Dirty Reed interrupted, 'New jobs,' he began, 'new bosses-' " first person. Avoiding the vanity of this approach, Author Walker uses his pronoun mainly as a lens for objective experiences. For reader as for Harris Burnham's fiancée, there is resentment against his preoccupation with factories...
...Were startled when Viscount Burnham, outstanding publicist, holder of an LL. D. from the universities of Cambridge, McGill, Athens and Perth (West Australia) began to speak bristling words of indignation: "The proceedings of this House now constitute a parliamentary scandal! The House of Commons now passes what bills they please and shovel them upon us too rapidly for serious contemplation or debate. The indignities now heaped upon the House of Lords* would not have been tolerated 30 years ago. I fail to see why they are tolerated...
Iselin found considerable difficulty in defeating Burnham number one player on the Tennis and Racquet team. Forced to his limit in the first game the University player overcame his opponent with comparative ease in the second encounter by a 15-10 score Burnham staged a comeback in the third game and by his accurate placements caught Iselin at 14-14. The later flashed all his knowledge of court tactics and battled through to a victory...
Significance. The Chaplin case was momentous in British newspaperdom as the first divorce action to test thoroughly the new suppressive law. Was it well that Britons could not read the details of the case, or, in the words of Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, is the law "an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities...