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In the last months of the Great War the ''doughboy," the "poilu" and the "Tommy'' fought side by side against "Jerry" (also known as "the Boche" and "the Hun"). Of all these warriors only "Tommy" had a last name. Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times...
The march of education is a restless one, it knows no barriers of race or nationality in its swift progress. The center of gravity, political, economic, educational, is shifting westward still, contemporary sages tell us. It would be definitely valuable, then, to disprove Mr. Kipling's stern address to the...
Last April Mayor Kelly began a campaign against all forms of underworld skullduggery; his determination and that of his subordinates has brought results. This drive has concentrated on illicit gambling dens, alky-cookers' work-shops, and blemishes on the face of society. Swift and inexorable action on the part of...
Died. Mrs. Evander Berry Wall 67, doyenne of U. S. expatriates in Paris; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo. With her husband, a well-known Beau Brummel of the Mauve Decade, she fled the U. S. in 1912 because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris...
Where he departs from the conventional, M. Maurois's judgements are sometimes unusually unhappy. He urges on us his conviction that Kipling is "the greatest writer of our time," first because Kipling is the only true mythmaker of the century (this is orthodox enough), and second because he is the...