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...CRAZY FOOL-Donald Ogden Stewart-A & C. Boni ($2.00). Since amused friends told Mr. Stewart he was a scream and should set up in the funny business, which he did with The Parody Outline of History (1921), this is his fifth booby book. It concerns Charlie Hatch, who inherited his uncle's insane asylum, organized it with conferences, buzzers and several Department Heads, "made good," won Banker Pratt's ravishing daughter and died a noble death just in time to avert a happy ending. Chuckle production, still profuse, rests chiefly on: 1) The incongruous appearance of old family...
...denying that the War Minister was irate. His eye glittered, his face paled, his tone exasperated. He said that the Stahlhelm and the Wehrwolf, semimilitary, monarchic, organizations, were dangerous to the safety of the State, an announcement which the Socialists welcomed. But he insisted that Germany was not fool enough to dream of war. Said...
...must help us. You must gently steer the blessed-fool reading public away from puffery and quackery and prurient prudery. You must stand for good English. Not for me, you understand. I am settled, fixed and determined in my way, forward I hope, but not adrift. But I love the venturers who are seeking something real and better...
...innocent fool that I was, shook my head. "There's nothing in it," I asserted. "Now I am going to get a liberal education in fifteen minutes a day by reading Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelves. Join me, Tom, and you'll never regret...
...quite true that Mr. Galsworthy is not without theatrical or historical precedent in this attempted justification. Charming Pollock's precedent (The Fool) converted many strips of printed cardboard into negotiable currency. Mr. Galsworthy is superior to Mr. Pollock -just enough better to make the result half trash and half sincerity...