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...story is all in tight trousers and tall hats?the curiously attractive garb of a century ago. Patricia O'Day comes to Manhattan from Ireland. En voyage she is forced to discard female finery and gear herself out in the clothing of a boy. The rest of her adventures transpire amid the rarefied air of high society and the heavier atmosphere of the lowest stratum during the days when the city structures had not begun to scrape...
...Allies made vigorous fight to keep the capitulations, the financial and economic clauses in the Treaty, but were finally forced to discard even these claims. The result of the second session shows plainly that Turkey, the loser in the Great War, won a great diplomatic victory over all her enemies who were combined against her. It is difficult to estimate the value of the Near Eastern Peace, which is after all only a technical settlement. One thing certain is that Turkey is once more a geographical entity and a Power to be dealt with in Near Eastern problems. The Treaty...
...Free City of Danzig is about to discard German marks and substitute an independent currency with 100 heller to one gulden...
...down to methods of working, and more important, habits of thinking no less mechanical than turning a screw every ten seconds. Clerks, at first fresh and alert, who allow their jobs to become mere routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence in preventing progress, their reaction against change, due to inertia alone, is tremendous...
...Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa and her husband, in a story told by a young monk (Mr. Taucher), who impersonates also Mona Lisa's youthful lover, whom she had been forced to discard to marry Francesco di Gioconda...