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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following recent publications will also be reviewed: "Helen and Others", by Marina Wister; "Some Do Not ..., by Ford Madox Ford; "The Best Plays of 1923-24", selected by Burns Mantle; "The Hidden Player", by Alfred Noyes; "In the Land of Youth", by James Stephens; "The Green Hat", by Michael Arlen; and "Sails of Sunsel", by Cecil Roberts, which A. D. Welton '23, Graduate Secretary of the Union, will review...
Like Mr. Depew, Elihu Root has also missed his opportunity for the highest office in the land. In 1899, he was firm in his refusal to run for Vice President on the ticket with Mc-Kinley, and acceptance would have made him President, after McKinley's assassination, instead of Roosevelt. In 1916, he was one of the candidates before the Republican Convention, running, in the first two ballots, second only to Hughes whom he had helped to make. But, like Mr. Depew, he soon withdrew his name in the interest of harmony...
...years but unbowed by them, strong as an ox, hard as a rock. In 60 odd years as a husbandman, Boryna had buried two wives; but the death of his second left him not averse to yet another union particularly as things were not going well on his land. His favorite cow died. His children, married and single, were ever on the watch for what they could...
...much enjoy your TIMELY Magazine, but I regret that you seem to be no better informed on the great Dominion to the north of you than other magazines published in the Land of Liberty...
Italy is the classic land of dictators. To her long line of emperors and popes, to her commercial titans of Venice and Genoa, to her art masters of Florence and Rome, and to her indomitable Mussolini of contemporary fame, is now added another picker up of the discarded toga of Cincinnatus. All literary Europe is agog over Benedetto Croce who poses, and by many is accepted, as the Doctor Johnson of his day. Scholar, statesman, and philosopher, his most recent work in the field of literary criticism is an astonishing volume upon "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century...