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While these things were going on in China last week, callow Nationalist officials prattled of grandiose schemes. Most pompous was that of Wang Peh-chun, Minister of Communications. With his department $700,000,000 in debt, he propounded a "General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half...
...Barpers, comes Richmond Barrett who shows, as it inevitably had to be shown, that the weltschmerz of Hemingway has been accepted as legitimate romance by "callow cynics who were old enough to shave the down off their chins but not old enough to vote." Mr. Barrett is perhaps one of the first to proclaim publicly the fact, for fact it is. Hemingway and his imitators--he is probably the most imitated author now living--have succeeded in glorifying the seamy side of life in such a manner that it appears far more enticing than any other aspect. The present Younger...
Conclusions: 1) the I. W. W. in Colorado are callow, emotional, obstinate, primitive; 2) so are the blood-shedding Colorado operators, police, government...
...success of his gesture was greater than Nelson knew. Not because, after his canoe had tipped over and he had been lugged ashore, Claire had the momentary pang of remorse it had been his intention to inspire. But because, on their subsequent encounter, he employed a term of callow reproach of which the effect upon Claire was wonderful and strange. "Out of her rage and pain and the hot pressure of old, old instincts and urges, intelligence was being born. For the first time in her life she had just had a thought...
...Friday usually means fish and the beginning of a weekend. But even he is likely to become uneasy on gazing at the current date-line. Even he cannot throw off the accumulated weight of ages: the most unlucky of days, coincidental with the most unlucky of numbers--one's callow self-confidence wavers...