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Last week, Polar Pilgrim Nobile planted the flag of Italy upon the North Pole, dropped upon its icy wastes the cross given into his hands by Pope Pius, conducted the first religious ceremony ever held on top of the world and, warmed by the glow of an object accomplished, headed back through icy winds toward Kings Bay. It had taken him 19 hours to reach the Pole. The first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile...
That the world may see streaks of light through the long hours of darkness, Orange, N. J., women hired themselves to the U. S. Radium Corporation. Daily they took up watch dials and painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant...
...alone a fairly large number of candidates receive their degrees in three or three and one-half years; and if any of Dr. Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they too would doubtless receive their deserts and march out, diploma in hand, in a glow of fame. The demands upon teachers, on the other hand, do to a certain extent exist; but the idea of making one or more degrees the summum bonum, sine quanon, be-all and end-all of secondary school instructors is not to be laid at the door of the colleges...
...Leather Face, novel of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, by the Baroness Orczy. It tells of a bailiff's son, purer than Galahad, bolder than Robin Hood, an unruly crusader against the Spanish governor. For peace the blonde niece of the governor married this leatherface. Set in a gentle glow of sentiment are mild bearded Spaniards spearing Flemish guards, and Flemish guards wetting Flanders fields with dark Spanish blood. And then Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss...
...long since been surpassed in that respect by lesser men, playing loudly the chord that formed only a fragment of his symphony. Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced by this glant degenerated to vulgarity, but not before Hauptmann, Shaw, and Strindberg, following Ibsen, had established its importance in literature. Not often does true genius receive its due while...