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...Britain, however, they do things differently. Last week Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha, the man who is rated the livest live wire in the Chamberlain Cabinet, rose in Parliament to declare that the antiaircraft equipment of London during last September's crisis was in an utterly chaotic state. Mr. Hore-Belisha added many unpleasant details...
...least as interesting as their advertising, and last week in Manhattan the John Wanamaker store cut loose with nothing less than the second annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress. Wanamaker patrons in search of home furnishings were thus led to see some 235 examples of the livest professional work being done...
...peace lover attempted public auto-crucifixion last week, but in Manhattan the biggest, most active anti-war machine of its kind, the Emergency Peace Campaign, received from abroad its livest spark plug. Now almost a year old (TIME, March 16 et seq.), the E. P. C. announced that during January and February some 300 speakers, laymen and clergymen will talk for peace in 1,000 U. S. cities. At their head will be a lame British spinster of 60 whom many a religionist considers the greatest preacher of her sex in the world - Dr. A. (for Agnes) Maude Royden...
...back as the Crimean and Japanese Wars the government had lost prestige at home and abroad, but demands for reform were met with more systematic repression, until by 1917 the Tsar could scarcely find support outside the ranks of the nobility. The livest sections of Author Chamberlin's history are to be found in his descriptions of the collapse of the Romanov autocracy, "one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents...
...cholelithotomy (removal of gallstones), and for the next few months Mr. Atterbury disappeared from the news, except for persistent reports that he was dying. Certainly he was not at his office. Late last autumn he put his yacht Arminia into Miami, summoned newshawks aboard. "I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw," he fumed. "I haven't felt so well since last July...