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...enrich their little brain child. There are bawdy cartoons by the leading New Yorker and Esquire artists, articles by Philip Wylie, Rex Stout, and poems by William Rose Benet, Leonard Bacon and Ogden Nash; and one act plays by Hervey Allen and Marc Connelly. The subject matter runs the gamut of the privy and bedroom school of expression...
...outstanding lesson in the art of British politics was afforded last week by its great master. A simple date and his reasons for choosing it gave the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin all the scope a political artist needs to run the whole gamut of his virtuosity. The situation: The Prime Minister was about to call a sudden ''snap election" on Nov. 14 because he thinks his government can win more votes on their foreign policy amid Europe's present state of alarm than they possibly could on their domestic record quietly considered...
Ever since the rejuvenated donkey kicked the G.O.P. white elephant back to the sunny fields of California, Republican leaders have been sitting in their overstuffed chairs taking pot shots at the administration. Their criticism has run the gamut from intelligent analysis of Roosevelt's budgetary policy to the point of suspecting that Rex Tugwell's pearly teeth are a fabrication...
...inadequacy of Harvard Hall has run the gamut from the joke of the University to the point where it is a genuine menance to the safety of the students it serves. Old buildings, untouched by the coarse hands of modernity, are treasures of which one can always be proud, but when they have become such a indispensable utility as Harvard Hall, colonial quaintness must give way to necessary alteration...
...legions of a momentarily resurrected Rome march along the plains of Ethiopia, in defiance not only of Haile Selassie but of the opinion of the world, one course of action alone remains to be taken. Sanctions, a word which in the hands of journalists has run the gamut of meaning from embargos to war, must be placed upon the international gangster to bring him to his knees...