Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...STORY OF A NOVEL-Maxim Gorky-Dial Press ($2.50). A married girl seeking more from life encounters a half-made creature from the imagination of the novelist who has sought to conquer her. The unreality of the creature, who is the thickness of paper and invisible standing sidewise, makes her tremble for the validity of her own existence. She is more friendly to the novelist...
UNDER THE BLACK FLAG?Don C. Seitz Dial...
PEACE AND GOODWILL IN INDUSTRY- Stanley Baldwin-Dial Press ($.75). In this small book are three of Premier Baldwin's recent speeches on industrial questions. They not long ago created much favorable comment as marking the divergence of "social" Conservatism from "Imperial" (or imperious) Conservatism; as being oratorical efforts of high merit and, lastly, as injecting undemagogic appeal and simple common sense into the field of politics...
...POEMS?E. E. Cummings?Dial-Press ($2.50). Upon the pages of a far haughtier, a far less circulated magazine* than that for which Author Connell writes, lines of fiery poetry are often encountered, drooping through their allotted space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore...
...field of human freedom must be kept as wide as possible, and the arbitrary definition of moral standards by insincere and prurient politicians is an infringement upon that field of free activity. On Friday the final decision will be made by the postal authorities, to readmit or bar the Dial parody. To disqualify the Advocate would be not less a slander upon its public and the University than a stigma upon the intelligence and sincerity of the postal authorities. A reinstatement in the privileges of the mails will be a vindication of the Advocate's excellent parody and proof incontrovertible...