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When Charles Lamb invented his category of "books which are not books", it probably did not enter his mind that a peculiar specimen with whole chapters in turn smudged and crisp, would later apply for admission. Very likely, if he could see one of them, he would be at a loss to explain the evident enthusiasm felt for the chapters so devastatingly conned. But to all who frequent Widener these volumes are common place. They are witness to a species of intellectual privation...
...small Frenchman, whose face showed all too clearly his partiality for the vices that infect his country and capital city. Richards took the next three games. Ah, that was better! A clean-living American would yield to no such opponent. Richards was at the net now, was volleying crisp shots to right and left. He made nine service aces in the first set. But a series of lucky placements by LaCoste, and the evident willingness of the Frenchman to spend all his reduced vitality in a desperate effort at the start, deprived him of the set, 6-4. LaCoste...
...response to crisp invitations from the New York Electrical League and the Electrical Board of Trade of New York, over 1,000 executives of electrical and public utility corporations sat down to luncheon in Manhattan last week and gazed about at one another expansively...
...Arguments Pro. The forces for the settlement were led by Representative Crisp of Georgia (Democrat), Representative Burton of Ohio (Republican), who are both members of the Ways and Means Committee and of the Debt Funding Commission, and by Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, one of the financial experts on the Committee. The argument they presented for the agreement was simple: Italy is bankrupt; these are the best terms we can get; this is all that Italy can pay. Representative Mills turned to the opposition with the declaration that the average income of the Italians is less than...
Representative Crisp made the majority report favoring ratification because he is one of the members of the Debt Funding Commission. Representative Cordell Hull, also a Democrat, made the minority report objecting vigorously to the Italian agreement, which is the most lenient that has been made...