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...proposed resolution of Representative Edith Nourse Rogers at Washington calling upon Secretary Hull to explain why adequate protection was not provided the American legation in Addis Ababa during the crisis is only one more example of the American policy of advocating insurance in a loud voice, refusing to take the responsibility of paying the premium, and then raising a loud howl when the building is half burned. It not only flagrantly disregards the true facts of the case, but is the usual type of crown to cap the parlor patriotism on the front pages of the last few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTISM RESURRECTED | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

...WORLD OVER-Edith Wharton-Appleton-Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cultivated Garden | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Like so many neat flowerbeds, the 43 books of Edith Wharton stand in polite rows that many a ruder gardener of words might envy. Few society women have gone in for such a messy job as professional writing, but even in working dress Edith Wharton is patently grande-dame. To the eyes of the younger generation, her polite and cultivated formality might well seem quaintly behind the times, but for survivors of the pre-War garden age she still has a nostalgic charm. If the stories in her latest book are not quite so cosmopolitan as the title suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cultivated Garden | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...long as I live I'll never be able to forget I tangled with the Hun, but for the past 17 years I have tried desperately hard to let the rest of the world forget it. Edith Wynner to the contrary, men in general, who have been in a front-line dressing station during an attack, who have chewed up a towel or two to keep their screams from blending with the shrieks and moans of the endless "dressing hours," do not goose step, wave flags, or cry for more and better wars. Neither are they yellow. I speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...EDITH WYNNER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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