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...representatives of groups whose influence is more than proportionate to their numbers, deserve attention whenever they publish noteworthy volumes. G. D. H. Cole, Chairman of the Fabian Society's Executive Committee and percennal Labor Candidate for Parliament from Oxford, is one of those significant authors. In this, the infest of his seventy old works Professor Cole directs a manifesto to his fellow Socialists, urging them to seize the lead the constructive planning for tomorrow's Europe...
...find herself a husband. The resulting play is frankly nothing but a pleasant comedy of manners. It makes no pretensions to anything but amusement, and it goes about it in a pleasant, slow-paced, and literate manner that is a pleasant change from the frantic modern comedies which infest our stage. The handsome set and the almost perfect cast are bathed in the romantic golden glow of The Good Old Days. "The Damask Check" intends to divert it and it succeeds admirably...
Thousands of feet above sea level tower the Owen Stanley mountains. Thick, jungly undergrowth, palms, bamboos, rotting and slimy vegetation cover their jagged flanks. Natives hoist themselves up the precipitous slopes by trailing liana vines. Waterfalls, gorges and limestone cliffs form freakish barriers. Strange, malicious insects infest the equatorial hell. It is one of the world's wildest jungles. Last week the Owen Stanley* range still stood. But the Japs, in less than a week's time, had negotiated...
...combat athlete's foot (dermatophytosis)-the itch caused by the toe-burrowing fungi dermatophytes which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...
...soldiers who "read" their shirts for the vicious grey beasties that infest fighting men far from water, the German Army issued a stern order (captured and broadcast by the delighted Russians...