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...ladies who chuckled and wiped their eyes appreciatively over All Passion Spent will rub their spectacles and frown before they get far into The Dark Island. A creative experiment of a more ambitious sort than Novelist Sackville-West has tried hitherto, The Dark Island adds a dubious but disturbing hypothesis in the case of woman as she might be in a world that...
...will be mechanized or flunked. Laboratory assistants do not as a rule show students the theories and principles which unite the details of the separate experiments and weld them into a comprehensive whole. Armed with mimeographed instruction sheets, they answer all those questions that should be asked and frown upon the extraneous. Tests come regularly and are returned regularly...
...Cathedral there was a long cold wait. Nervously King Carol of Rumania approached Regent Prince Paul with a toothy, ingratiating smile and tried to chat. The Prince showed his displeasure. Still with the same smile, Mourner Carol turned to the President of France who froze him with a frown. After that there was nothing to do but wait until pallbearers carried out the casket, set it on a gun carriage...
...favored U. S. participation in the World Court. In appearance he is red-faced, small (5 ft. 6 in.), a neat dresser. His addresses, delivered in falsetto, are usually admonitory, pedagogical. When his party was in power, he used to wear a wide political smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags. No one questions his sincerity and within his own ranks he is respected for his devotion to his party. He is a devout Methodist, a 33rd Degree Mason...
Behind Benito Mussolini's frown are concealed the talents of a tabloid editor, a great phrasemaker, sociologist, seer and conclusion-jumper. Last week his own newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, in the course of a routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There...