Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornhill Magazine had its day, and the Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn from its financial camorra, and the assumption is that a man's purse liea nearest his heart. Yet without even a Mencken editorial the magazine manages to decline gracefully. To the college student an article by one E. H. Orr on "The Impossibility of Education" is the piece do resistance...
Paul von Hindenburg, who has been very much like King Victor Emmanuel in the public eye, has had a birthday, and such birthday ceremonies as to make him once more a center of discussion and of speculation. One wonders just what Paul von Hindenburg thinks of Hitler, but senility and the admirable repression of his public utterance simply leave one wondering. There is, of course, the very strong possibility that he does not think of Hitler at all, that extreme age has so relaxed the fibers of his mind as in the case of the very late Victoria, that nothing...
...with prayers long before dawn, continue 18 or 20 hours. He speaks nearly every night, fills auditoriums with paying listeners. Never in good health, he contracted tuberculosis several years ago. Forced to rest, he nevertheless dictated three books. His partial blindness comes from trachoma contracted in the slums. One eye is gone. To read he must use a powerful magnifying glass. Eleven years ago Kagawa founded the Friends of Jesus, an order resembling the Franciscans which now has 1,300 members. In 1929 he started the Kingdom of God and two years later a Christian Internationale dedicated to "world awakening...
...bring about a show-down in court. HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY-Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A dozen stories, some about Lord Peter Wimsey; some about Montague Egg, traveling salesman full of apt saws; some about neither. THE DEAD PARROT-Michael Keyes- Crime Club ($2). BULL'S EYE - Milward Kennedy - Kinsey...
...their case the arrangement would be more than a social amenity. It would afford them practical openings to view their prospective residences more or less from the inside, and thus to make their final choice of House with a clearer eye than that of mere prejudice and untimely bias. A Freshman inter-House eating prerogative would moreover give much encouragement to friendships between upperclassmen and first-year men, which could be of essential benefit, but which are scarcely flourishing at the present. Certainly, under the wide aegis of the House Plan, the dinner table has come to be a focus...