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...fashion out of the experiences of her own youthful life. She does exceedingly well, particularly in the more pathetic stories of Franlcin Hanssemann, the school mistress, and Madame Lenosova, the actress attempting to salvage something of value and fame out of her long existing career so that she may impress an American movie-magnate. The author is especially adept in moving minor characters, such as the movie-magnate, Licbmann; through the several stories, giving them varied roles as they appear with the leading figures...
...remaining quite a pleasant pair. One girl has lived in incest, and ends with suicide. A man loses wife and place because of gross and public cowardice. It is a tribute to the skill of the author that all these themes, so bloody and thundery when related in skeleton, impress the reader of the book as the most natural and commonplace. This fact is perhaps the most convincing proof that Maugham has succeeded in portraying reactions and motives in a way to jibe with the experience...
...American University, following the impress of Harvard, grow up as a single scholastic college to which graduate and vocational schools soon attached themselves. At Harvard the college itself remained a college of liberal arts, and when its intellectual interests grew it burst the thongs of a prescribed, regular curriculum to run amok in an elective system which soon threatened the liberality of its standards in an avalanche of vocational courses, and in the graduation of men whose college career became a very limited and illiberal thing. To this Mr. Lowell became heir in 1909; from the first he announced...
...There appears to be a fairly general view that we should gain by abrogating the Anglo-Japanese treaty. ... I prefer to exhaust all other means before denouncing the treaty. We must not get the impression that Japan has beaten us. ... We are trying to impress the Japanese mind that it is well to live on a friendly footing with us rather than to carry their movement so far as to arouse, not only here but elsewhere, feelings of enmity. I believe we can improve our position, and no effort will be spared by the government in that direction...
...When, in this picture, a sailor says to Joe E. Brown. ''I ought to cut your throat from ear to ear," another remarks: "Someone's done it already." This rude allusion to Comedian Brown's appearance should please his admirers. So should his efforts to impress a girl who turns out to be the admiral's daughter; his antics when she takes him home to amuse her father and her fiancé, Brown's lieutenant; his attempt to escape by a trellis, which breaks and lets him fall; his eventual departure on the wing...