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...known how to act constitutionally and to make his actions tell with greater force than have those of some despots. Hardly had he come to the throne than he refused point blank to make the Socialists suffer because a loon from Paterson, N. J., murdered his father. Shortly after, he delivered one of his few speeches, which has since become famous for its brevity and point...
WILBUR THE HAT-Hendrik Van Loon-Boni, Liveright ($3.50). Wilbur, a hat blown into Kingdom Come, found himself drifting down one of the principal waterways of that monarchy accompanied by a certain cricket. Wilbur saw a pile of debris ("The ancient Gods," said Cricket, "who had meant so much for so long that people could not let them be sold for junk"), the greatest of the world's builders, a whittling man (Stradivari), a place that smelled of onions (the Acropolis), a resigned figure absolutely alone on an island the size of a dollar (Jesus Christ). Irritated with...
...editors asked of excitable Henrik Willem Van Loon, whilom college professor. Said he : "It is really quite useless, my writing upon this subject. Whenever I open my mouth and say something about football, the answering chorus is, 'Oh well, but how could we expect a poor foreigner to under stand our national game?' ... I have nothing against the stadia (or stadiums or stadiumses, or whatever you wish to call them in an un-Greek age). This is a free world. Go ahead and build all the stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them...
Such were the political repercussions of the act of a lovelorn loon...
...lovelorn loon...