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...distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing the supernatural, in sheer romance a virtue but here a weakness, crops out often enough to mar the fine simplicity with which more familiar miracles are treated-Saul's epileptic vision in a sandstorm on the Damascus road; making the cripple of Lystra leap up and walk; breathing life into the broken boy, Eutychus; surviving the viper's bite at Melita, island of honey...
...forbade the Armour Grain Co. (corporation entirely separate from Armour & Co., meat packers) from further trading on their grain exchange. Thus the directors punished the company for the knavery of Armour Grain Co. employes?their thievery, their defrauding of the Farmers Cooperative Grain Marketing Corp. with burnt grain (TiME, Mar. 14), and their desecration of the Board's prestige...
Sirs: Last week the anniversary of the death of "the greatest Jew of modern times"- was recognized by many admiring people throughout the world (TiME, Mar. 7). Your tribute to the memory of this great, good man was to publish an article under the head EDUCATION, in which you pictured an attic recluse spending his leisure hours in demoniac glee watching spiders fight. The article reminds us of President Coolidge's Washington's Birthday address in which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention...
Because fighting Spanish bulls have refused to splinter their horns against humanely steel-armored horses in the bull ring (TIME, Mar. 7), five new types of rubber, canvas and fibre armor were tried out, last week, at Madrid. Bull horns gored deeply through all but the fibre armor, killing four out of the eight horses on which the protective armor was tried out. Madrid bullfight fans howled disapproval of the whole proceeding...
Americana is the day's rage, but the hest of it needs no rewriting. Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild pigeons. He felt, a century ago, that he must hurry to record the natural state of a world already vanishing. Monuments and societies have been set up in his name by people who hope that it is not yet too late for conservation. If such people are really interested in Audubon, this book...