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...short time after it was her spaniel Flush. Perhaps to show that of the making of biographies there is no end, perhaps because such a dog's-eye-view of human romance appealed to her originality, Virginia Woolf has written a vignette in which both Flush and his invalid mistress are brought touchingly to life. If at times Flush seems more Woolf than spaniel, his biographer smilingly admits that "there are very few authorities" for so circumstantial, so authoritative an account...
...classrooms. The National Education Association, which works hand-in-glove with the Office of Education, announced a program by which teachers would re-interpret textbooks, explaining to children why such maxims as "Competition is the life of trade" and "A penny saved is a penny earned" are at present invalid. Whether or not NRA is of immediate benefit to Education, Dr. Zook predicts it will widen Education's bounds. The child labor ban will put 100,000 new pupils in the high schools. And the increase of leisure will increase the demand for adult education, by which teachers...
...Tokyo on Sept. 26, 1904 Yakumo Koizumi died, leaving four children, three of whom still live in his house. An invalid for several years before his death, he had been blind in one eye since he was 16, was painfully nearsighted in the other. As his sight failed he developed a hyper-acute sense of smell. It was Lafcadio Hearn's boast that he could smell the difference between a brunette and a blonde...
...shiftless, lazy, a loud talker, always in some kind of avoidable difficulty with his crops. Olly was frail; he kept his end up at harvest, but his mind was on debating triumphs at college, a lawyer's future. Mark's second wife would have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made her sharp tongue sharper. Lois May's and Lize's dreams all turned towards the city. But Ed was a good farmer, and little John, from the time he could toddle, showed there was sound stuff in him. Prize...
...appeal to the Supreme Court could the U. S. discover where its legal duty lay. If that court upheld the brewer, it would in effect void Dry states' Prohibition Laws. If it sustained a Dry State, it would be declaring 3.2% beer intoxicating, the new 3.2% beer act invalid...