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Quivering Jewish ire last week faced suave Anglo-Saxon aplomb in the Casino at Deauville, France, focal point of international folly...
...mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming cause for all their adolescent agonies, succumb readily to the "spiritual surgery" which follows this easy diagnosis...
...focal point, Science selected eight prominent journals; measured the space they gave to a recent meeting in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The eight sheets consumed 1,379% column-inches, of which the Boston Transcript took 347. Last stood the Philadelphia (where the meeting met) Evening Ledger with 74% column inches. The New York Times led Manhattan journals tabulated with 175% column inches; the World had 113%. Education and general science lumped led the subjects treated with 194%; astronomy stood second with...
...illumination causes dilation of the pupil to an abnormal degree and provides a coreal area which does not permit of focal accuracy and which tends to distortion of outline. To partially overcome this, segmental action of the ciliary muscle governing the focusing of the eye is induced. Such muscular action can only be attained by great effort...
...musical comedy ever assembled and seems to suffer only through an excess of talent. By the middle of the second act you actually become a little weary of seeing celebrities running on and off with brief lines and a song here and there. The show lacks unity and a focal interest. As a five-dollar vaudeville show, it is the very best. Miss Miller plays a circus girl who marries a man on shipboard because she has neglected the formality of obtaining a passport. She ' never sang better (which is not saying so much) and she never danced better (which...