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...Maurier) Davies, was the beautiful daughter of famed artist George Du Maurier and a sister of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. She and her children figure in many of Barrie's works. George, the eldest, suggested one line of Barrie's play, Little Mary, and received one ha'penny royalty for each performance, until he was killed during the War while serving as a Lieutenant. The second son, Michael, said to have supplied the inspiration of Mary Rose, was drowned five years ago while an undergraduate at Oxford. When Sir James heard this news his grief was great...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...
Having no authority to set down or enforce regulations for distributing and handling gasoline, Surgeon General Gumming announced that ha would call a conference of health officials from all the States. Pending regulations, the Ethyl Gasoline Co., chief manufacturer of the new fuel, promised to cooperate upon resuming its sales...
...bobtail, happened upon Mr. Seitz's article, and the Outlook's comment upon Mr. Seitz. He noted with joy that Mr. Seitz had offered criticism on some of the more unfortunate elements of modern life-the very elements of which the News is Herald and High Defender. Ha! here was dragon's meat indeed. Class prejudice could be stirred up like a muddy puddle. Ignorant and penurious people could be made to feel that they had a grievance. They could be made to hate the "highbrow" Outlook, to distrust the "capitalist" New York World, to scorn...
...first paragraph allayed suspicion somewhat. It told of dentists, two U. S. dentists, itinerant in Ecuador. The next paragraph was rather dull description of the dentists. But, ha! another dentist! an Ecuadorian of no high ethics. He filled teeth with tin and copper instead of gold. Trembling with apprehension the parents read on, ons not a long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less...