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...Next Room. Burton Egbert Stevenson is probably best known for his colossus among anthologies?The Home Book of Verse. Yet once he wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing...
Last week Governor Small pardoned them. There is little doubt that he had no legal right to do so, but the State Supreme Court will not convene until December and nothing can be done meanwhile. This act, said the Chicago Daily Tribune, "adds a cubit to Small's colossus of nerve . . . The executive clemency is extended to jailed citizens whose virtue is their silence on the methods by which a Governor was acquitted of embezzlement...
Henceforth the British Review of Reviews will be owned and edited by Wickham Steed. Steed was formerly Lord Northcliffe's man; he ap- peared in the U. S. with Northcliffe when the Fleet Street colossus made his tour of the world in 1921. For Northcliffe he edited the London Times. The monthly he now controls was founded in 1890 by W. T. Stead...
...submarine has a displacement of 3,600 tons (1,400 tons greater than the one-time German U-142). The greatest secrecy is being maintained regarding the vessel. A report is current that she will carry a 13.5-inch gun. The total cost of the new colossus will be in the proximity of one million sterling...
There is no doubt that if Porto Rico could view the status of Cuba, the bond between this precious Antille and this colossus would be one of the deepest affection. Although these wishes are not realized, gentlemen, let me assure you and the American people of our loyalty to the United States. The original charter of Porto Rico was granted by Spain because our loyalty had been tested, and it remained unbroken through the many vicissitudes that she had to suffer. We have seen our coasts bombarded and invaded by all her powerful past enemies, England, Holland, France...