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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic seaboard by air, dropped Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant Attorney-General in the Coolidge Cabinet and "the next Attorney-General" in the press. He said he was there to work on some cinema cases. But everyone knew that President-Elect Hoover had sent for him, his friend and confidant, to discuss political this and governmental that before departing good-willingly for South America...
...enemies of Harvard's institutions the Sophomores appropriately garbed, held an imposing funeral procession and services. A coffin was provided, a foot-fall placed within it, and a grave was dug, while all had an opportunity to look for the last time on the face of their "dear departed friend" and hero of many battle. Then "Football Fight, um," symbolizing the game, was buried in the Delta amid the wails and lamentation of the mourners. When the grave was filled gravestones of black board were placed at the head and foot with the following epitaph...
...Story. Arnold Blettsworthy, newly weaned from Oxford, not only affianced himself to the tobacconist's yellow-haired daughter, but joined forces with his best friend in a project to enlighten the world through a chain of bright blue bookshops. Cheated by the friend, jilted by the tobacconist's daughter, Blettsworthy's disillusion affected him so desperately that his kindly solicitor-guardian prescribed the traditional remedy-a year on the high seas...
...Significance. An old friend, talking Blettsworthy out of his cynicism, reflects the author's faith in the power of man's will. Mr. Wells' prolific and contradictory satires and Utopias are abundant evidence that he has not always had this faith, but has developed it gradually, epitomizing it in The Open Conspiracy. Whatever the burden of proof, Rampole Island is more than excellent satire, replete with symbolism and analogy; it is an eminently good yarn packed with humor, humanity, and occasional high adventure...
...Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural position and prevented it from falling in. So artful were the operations and so secretly done that the country, panicky over money, knew nothing...