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...Dictator Mustafa Kemal's boundless disgust last week, he proved to have been right in his hunch that most Istanbul high-school students would flunk if their helpful teachers were kept out of examination rooms. When this precaution was taken, 75% of the students flunked, created a situation so tense that the Ministry of Education announced fresh examinations for students who failed, added that this time their teachers will be present. After that drastic reforms will be enforced...
Riffling through the papers in his hotel-room, General Johnson snorted with disgust when his eye fell upon a cartoon by Carey Orr on the Tribune's front page. It depicted a huge Brain Truster brandishing over a minute mother and two children the bludgeon of NRA PROHIBITIONS (see cut). Caption: "New York:?Mrs. Katherine Budd, a mother with two children to support, was informed that President Roosevelt had turned down her plea for permission to work in her home making artificial flowers because 'THE PURPOSES OF THE NRA CODE WOULD BE DEFEATED...
...their own presses. They call themselves "a. j.'s" (amateur journalists). The N. A. P. A. was formed in Philadelphia in 1876. Nineteen years later, also in Philadelphia, the upstart Amateur Press Association of America was founded. Later that organization prefixed "United" to its name, much to the disgust of the highly professional United Press...
...taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed to applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged, Mildred screams abuse at Philip, ends with the most dreadful insult she can think of: "You cripple!" If the final sequences showing Philip becoming engaged to a decent wholesome girl suggest the standard pattern of a happy ending it is because Author Maugham wrote his story that...
Author Lawrence writes her brutal story with an icy detachment that will not recommend any of her characters to a reader's wholehearted sympathy. Indignation, disgust, pity she certainly succeeds in arousing. And for insurance men Years Are So Long should be required reading...