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BACK in this reviewer's toy-soldier age, which coincided with the early years of the war, there appeared a succession of war stories like Empey's "Over the Top" and Collins' "Outwitting the Hun," that gave him vicariously--and diluted--the thrills of combat. Such books stood on the seven-day shelves of American libraries, and though they protested stoutly and even violently their fairness, they had their little part in arousing the sentiment of 1917. As books, they were fitting for the toy-soldier age. Private Suhren is a definitely more matrue volume than these, and while...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: A Page of Early Spring Novels | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

...salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...GERMAN BREWER IS A HUN, PUT HIM OUT OF BUSINESS BY VOTING FOR PROHIBITION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Busch | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Zeiss firm of Jena will sell these instruments only to cities, universities, museums, after guarantee that they will not be used for profit. Each a universe and a lecture room combined, these hun dred-foot domes reproduce the movements of all heavenly bodies, but are. available for ordinary class purposes when not wanted for astronomical demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Planetaria | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...Assembly. ... In Princeton, B. Frank Bunn, keeper of the University store, was elected mayor over Democratic Orren Jack Turner, town photographer. For the first time in Princeton's history, students of the University were kept from voting by the local election board. Professor Edward A. Stephens of the Hun Preparatory School, just outside the Princeton limits, was arrested for perjury when he swore his legal residence was in Princeton. Professor Stephens is a G. O. P. leader. Justice of the Peace John Golden, Democrat, made the arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Off-Year Elections | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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