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...cheeriest French customs is that whenever the President goes off on an official visit he takes with him all kinds of costly and delightful presents. Just before the War, for example, Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little...
...cheeriest part of his report was his statement on the condition of agriculture since July of this year. Said he: "Advance has been particularly conspicuous in the case of cotton as a result of a much reduced crop. As the prices of other commodities had meantime declined somewhat, the relative position of farm products has materially improved. On a pre-war basis the index for them now stands quite as high as the average for nonagricultural articles." Textile manufacture has also improved...
...merely Ph.D.'s and section men it is comforting to be approached on the subject on one's personal glamour. The fact that many other colleges and universities are receiving the same honor does not detract from its value, for while a Yale movie star is conceivable even the cheeriest enthusiast has heretofore failed to prophesy a Harvard cinema idol...
...first sight appear to shine like a good omen in a world of unweaned radicals. But examination proves it to be no more than a tardy sanity. "No more Reforms" signifies nothing, since reforms in the best sense result only from a desire to remove evils, and even the cheeriest optimist cannot hope to forestall all corruptions. The News' resolve to avoid platforms is praiseworthy, only because such platforms are usually a collection of meaningless sentences...
...Skin?Llewellyn Powys ?Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). The three literary brothers Powys all gnaw without cease at the mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children; a band...