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. . . And, as a matter of information, please. In the Sept. 12 issue, p. 47 TIME uses the expression, "England iiber Alles," labeling it a Kipling creed, which should mean, England first, or England above all others.
The Vagabond knows no laws, nor of time, nor of space, nor of men; from this arise most of the numerous peccadillos which, from time to time, stain his fair name and reputation. He is not alone in this, for there was once a distinguished gentleman, known to all and...
" 'John Brown's Body' [by Stephen Vincent Benét] was a step in the right direction. I've read it once and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. Three hundred lines is about...
Reported Reporter Morley: "The President is a good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Brontë, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte...
The Gandhi IF. In the United Kingdom, where statesmen observe the Friday-to-Monday week-end quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins...