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...after dinner. It is unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry and, later, of all the Russian armies. For even the dogs are conscious that something unusual, something dark and dreadful is coming to pass-the War, entered into by the Romanovs to gloss over their moral and mental shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome and off he goes to the front with Fedka. They are taken prisoners and live for a while in Germany. Then back they steal into Russia as heroes and Siedoi becomes more and more...
...press last week flowed two contradictory currents of news on industrial unemployment. One current ran uphill to large headlines proclaiming a quick return to Prosperity. The other ran down- hill to accounts of breadlines and jobless distress. Behind headlines for prosperity was sound Republican politics to minimize and gloss over unemployment. Behind breadlines for the jobless was equally sound Democratic politics to blame the party in power for a serious labor slump...
Another new product is Zalmite, named for Zalmon Simmons, president of Simmons Co. (beds). Similar to Bakelite, this new synthetic resin will take a high gloss, will make strong, tough beds which can be stamped out by single clips of ponderous machines. Carefully guarded is the secret process by which this Zalmite is made. Zalmon Simmons when questioned, facetiously replies that it consists of "peanut shells and burlap bags...
...expected from so expert a commentator. Some space might have been found for a discussion of Shakspere's relation to Lyly--not in the 'Pinch him' song of Falstaff's malaise where the comment suffices, but in the 'Hark! Hark! the lark' aubade from Cymbeline. The gloss ignores Trico's song in Campaspe...
Children of Darkness. History is apt to make the ladies of bygone centuries seem lovelier than our own. and the scamps of other times appear far more appealing in their outrageousness than contemporary racketeers. Playwright Edwin Justus Mayer (The Firebrand), always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap...