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...American literature came to " a real verge." " It's high time now that someone came to life out of the swaddled infant of truth that America spawned some time back," he remarks with naïve condescension. So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital...
...editor of the London Daily Express. Commenting upon the fact that trying to find a Jew in Jerusalem is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, he said: "They are drops in the Arab ocean." Referring to the Government of Palestine, he remarked: "They are a cryptic hierarchy of esoteric oligarchs guarded by British bayonets, British aeroplanes and British armored cars...
Secret Service raids on a counterfeiting conspiracy, characterized in the New York afternoon edition as "gigantic," increased the population of the New York jails by 22 and added to the government's collection of criminal curios about $100,000 in bogus bank notes. Although a cryptic secrecy veiled the details of the Federal activity, it is said that over 1,000 persons will be arrested for connection with the counterfeiters. Millions of revenue stamps, postage stamps, whisky, beer and champagne labels, bonded liquor seals, and doctor's prescription blanks were also discovered. Secret Service men say that their...
...many years ago Lord Playfair quoted the saying that the function of the two great English universities was to teach men to spend, that of the Scotch universities to teach them to earn, an income respectably; and he added that American universities existed for both of those objects. This cryptic remark might be the subject of endless discussion. The aim of the American college should be, not to give its students the technical training and tools of their future occupation, but rather to fit them to be citizens, to develop those qualities that lead to the better life both...
...Wells, historian himself by avocation, in bewailing the absence of glamour from modern times, is quoted as commenting recently; "there is not more history, nothing but line typed records and political economy!" The point raised by this somewhat cryptic remark is one which has divided present-day historians into two camps as widely divergent as the Big Endiaus and Little Endiaus of Lilliput. Certainly there has never been a time when the raw flux of history and romance has poured out as plentifully as today. The question is one of treatment...