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...tabloid journals flourishing today are at once a subway commonplace and a surface enigma. In the current Nation, Silas Bent undertakes to analyze their status and, after some purely journalistic comment, reaches this conclusion: the tabloids have discovered a new public. For, these new papers, easy to handle, to read, to look at, have run, in the city of New York for example, into a circulation of one and one quarter million copies without having proselyted from the older dailies, even considering retarded progress as well as actual impairment, more than one hundred thousand purchasers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IN A GLASS,--DARKLY" | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Because President Coolidge stands as the political enigma of the country, an ordinary Senatorial campaign in Massachusetts takes on the aspect of a critical duel. In the President's home state, his friend and adviser, Senator William M. Butler, must vanquish the popular ex-Senator David L. Walsh or else expose the Administration to uncertain danger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHADOW OR SUBSTANCE | 3/23/1926 | See Source »

...becomes the pervading quality of seasoned craftsmanship in similar types of writing, of vigorous literary cadence, of a thoughtfully crystallized attitude to wards life. If the author had only a modicum of idealism or of disillusionment, he would write dynamically and "God Head" would not be a non-essential enigma...

Author: By G. LA Coeur, | Title: GOD HEAD, by Leonard Cline, The Viking Press, New York. 1926. $2. | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...questions which is most perplexing in relation to the Yale series will be solved at least in part by this afternoon's game. The pitching problem for the two games next week remains as much an enigma as it was at the beginning of the season. Spalding seems to rate as the best Crimson hurler, as he was last year, but whether Coach Mahan will start him in the first game, hoping to get the edge at the start, or keep him for the second game, is largely a matter of speculation. The other starter will probably be either Herrmann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERRMANN ON MOUND AGAINST SPRINGFIELD | 6/10/1925 | See Source »

...until the seventh inning, it was a great game for the University. On the long end of a 2 to 1 score, finding the renowned Carroll no such enigma as in the past, and having played a flawless game in the field, it was little wonder that those Crimson enthusiasts who travelled to the blistering Fitton Field at Worcester should think back to the home run that won the last Crimson victory over the Purple in 1920. The last two frames did much to disillusion those who were so venturesome as to hope for victory, but the whole game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRORS IN SEVENTH GIVE WIN TO PURPLE | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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