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...Yoshizawa had used the word "truce" (thus giving away Japan's pretense that she is not at war; created such towering indignation that the diplomat's recall was rumored and almost every Japanese newspaper flayed him. Later he explained that he had not said "truce," was apparently forgiven...
...Fortaleza, Brazil because he showed no authorization to fly over Brazilian territory and had "not sufficient proof of his identity." Pilot Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit of the Imperial Aviation Association. Unforgiven, Hinkler & plane were held at Fortaleza while fellow Britons appealed to the Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro...
...never leave the place. He is shackled to the dread secret that lies buried in the back yard. His money begins to work him ill, embroils in him an unhappy affair with a blackmailing his daughter with a man, sickens his wife. His wife has long guessed and forgiven his crime, but when she finds he has been unfaithful she poisons herself- with cyanide. The attending physician suspects Mr. Marble, points to his eccentric life, his possession of poison, his books on poison cases. With one great shriek of ironical laughter Mr. Marble discovers that he must...
...face with a much talked of spectre of contemporary existence? Inferiority complex, that's what it is. Put yourself in the place of those benighted New Yorkers. New York's drawing rooms are full of old southern kunnels. And they know where they came from. They haven't forgiven Cromwell yet for chopping off King Charles's head. And these Bostonians! Well, not everybody is a Mayflower descendant, but they have a way of looking as if they were. --Boston Herald...
...present Mrs. Sinclair Lewis declared: "Babbitt, romanticizing his business, is merely a comic and pathetic figure, but his female counterpart, the high-powered business woman, is the most terrifying figure that has ever emerged on any scene. Men may be forgiven . . . but women, with their sounder biological instincts, should know . . . that that's not life...