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...Significance. Mr. Bullitt's story is too crisp and close-packed for adequate retelling. It is set down with a force, sweep and wine-laden atmosphere quite its own. On these first credentials alone the author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...
...crisp official envelope was posted at Geneva. Soon it was bobbing across the waves to Washington. Inclosed was an invitation from the League of Nations requesting the U. S. Government to send a representative to Geneva on Sept. 1. There and then will meet a special conference of the 48 nations adherent to the World Court, at which the reservations passed by the U. S. Senate (TIME, Feb. 8, CONGRESS) as the conditions upon which the U. S. will adhere to the World Court will be considered...
...monkey meat" ("canned willie," corn beef), welcome substitute for the "frigo" (frozen beef), welcome substitute for the sloppy, though nourishing slumgullion ' of the ration. This bacon was not so neatly packed, so elegantly handled as was the civilian product yet it was clean, wholesome, nourishing. Fragrant, crisp, dripping grease, on thick white bread and with a canteen cup full of hot coffee-"Bring on your...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY-A crisp and pliant comedy of polite larceny among the English nobility...
...often smudged excerpts from many and sundry volumes comprise the reading matter of a course. Although each excerpt yields some knowledge of a topic, and the accumulation of them imparts the main facts of the course, the student does not grow wise from perusal of these smudges. The crisp pages, many times outnumbering their much-read brethren, cramp his comprehension within the confines of the smudges...