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...Force for 42 years. He joined it as an ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever...
...Paris the Government, which has forbidden Frenchmen trying to fly across the ocean as a useless hazard, last week decided to "forgive" the Yellow Birdmen. But at Seville, Spain, two other Frenchmen, Captain Louis Coudouret and Louis Mallou had to abandon their attempt to fly from Seville to New York. Spanish officials had locked the plane in its hangar, to please the French government...
...Dean Pound's commencement address to the daughters of Eve at Wellesley he intimated that in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we have not partaken of what was forbidden, as did our first parents, but have merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable...
...footnote was Letter-Writer O'Brien's, not TIME'S. And it was correct, not "hooey." "Dog-robbers" were called "strikers" often enough to get into Webster's Dictionary under "striker." U. S. Army officers were forbidden to use enlisted men as servants by Act of Congress July...
...Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate who has been forbidden to speak in Boston, will speak for the first time in the vicinity of that city at the Harvard Liberal Club tomorrow evening. She will speak on birth control at a meeting open to members of the University and will answer questions afterwards...