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...front with one of those magnanimous and forthright gestures that have so endeared him to the hearts of his beloved countrymen. He has refused to take part in the army air investigation, despite the fact that he might gain much power and glory thereby. Still the simple modest lad that flew the Atlantic all by himself, he eschews the temptations of this life when to yield to them would be to sacrifice his faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true to the cause of justice and the aviation companies. If a wicked and paternalistic...
...Poor lad, he got his news-story back with a D--, inscribed, "This is the worst pretense at news-writing I have ever seen. No newspaper editor would even look at it." At a conference later this authoritarian view was amplified, the more so because the sophomore kept an heroic silence...
...John Simon were the principal speakers of the evening; and though Sir John carefully administered a slap on MacDonald's back, it was all too plain that the other assembled Tories had still some doubts of their new comrade. This is somewhat surprising, for though Ramsey, dear lad that he is, has led a rather contradictory career, one can be fairly safe in predicting that he has found his true spiritual home in the bosom of the Conservative Party. Here with chaste inflexion and earnest exhortation he can orate to sympathetic listeners, his phrases tumbling out in due procession, building...
...MASTER MURDERER - Carolyn Wells-Lippincott ($2). Fleming Stone pins the simultaneous slaughter of the four rich Everetts on the lad whose soup spoon wavered...
They asked one lad for a poem, and he replied enthusiastically that he was making a long satiric poem for them, after the manner of Dryden. The editors waited a long time for further news of the great work; were told that the poem was becoming difficult, and only half completed. The poet had struck some snags that never bothered Dryden, but was told to keep on and encouraged. After a few days strenuous wrestling with his verses the student telephoned the Critic office. He joyously told them that all his difficulties were over; he had solved the problem...