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...years I have been trying to devise a means of preserving a record of Current History in my library in a form that would be compact, concise and complete...
...Socialists leaped to their feet, stamping, screaming, hurling oaths and an occasional book, shoe, inkstand. . . . For almost five minutes absolute pandemonium reigned. From the Tribune M. Poincaré looked down with a sneer only partially masked by his beard. He, ever fearless, did not sneer rashly. His compact figure stood symbol for the might of his "Sacred Union Cabinet" (TIME, Aug. 2), uniting all parties but the extreme Left groups. M. Poincaré possessed, and none knew it better than he, powers which no French Premier has held since the election of 1924 returned a Chamber so evenly divided between...
Last week another effort was made. Smith, whose mouth turns down at the corners, missed a putt; Sarazen, whose mouth curls up in a grin, holed a birdie 4. Smith, who sometimes falters, shied his drive into the rough; Sarazen, who swings with compact precision, banged far down the fairway. "Ho ho!" cried hasty ones, "You see how this will end!" But Smith, whose wrists are wiry, winged a shot home and sank his putt for a 3. He missed another birdie by an eyelash, then holed a long side- hill recovery putt. He sized up putt after putt thereafter...
...Baldwin, compact, candid, assured, arose amid a portentous hush. Within five minutes Laborite M.P.'s were no more able to keep still than jumping beans upon a griddle. "Who forced this on you?" they shouted at the Premier. "This means a general election...
Those who talk of their "rights as a citizen" are never clear either about their rights or their citizenship. Most of their talk is far too compact of selfishness. But when the chief executive of such a government as that of the American nation leans too heavily toward either side of a situation which at best is a very difficult one can sanely be afraid lest that accurate balance between state and central government is truly one with "the consulship of Manlius...