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Died. Barbara Marquis, 13, frail daughter of Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, Manhattan wit; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Like her father a talented versifier, she had lately written, edited, managed, multi-graphed and circulated a paper called The California...
...surging is all about; it thrusts itself upon our presence with persistency that will not be denied. The Vagabond has sickened of depressions, business cycles, nations in ashes, and economic theories. His frail mind can not encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place to obliterate the memory of the first. He has, therefore, resorted to an old dodge, one frowned upon by psychologists and sociologists. He has taken unto himself comfort and refuge in romantic escape. He has harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words...
...Michelson started the machinery of his tube. It was high time. Death was crowding him closely, might at any stroke get under his guard. Dr. Michelson tightened all his energies. When Albert Einstein, whose theories grew out of the Michelson light measurements, was at Pasadena, he noted how frail and nerve wrought Dr. Michelson was. But no one could keep him from his work, not his wife, nor his four children, nor associates. He worked feverishly. His nerves broke down. He dared not travel between cottage and tube. Yet Fred Pearson, his long time assistant, and Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease...
...tensely quiet session saw frail Laborite Philip Snowden cow the entire phalanx of Conservative M. P.'s. The Chancellor demanded that his radical proposal for a levy of nearly % on the capital value of land (TIME, May 4) be included in the Finance Bill this year, although the levy will not be made for two years at least. By this technical maneuver Mr. Snowden sought to make his project a "money bill" and thus not subject to veto by the House of Lords, sure to veto it otherwise...
...woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...