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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes on for hours and hours and then it gets worse. Strange manifestations pile up. Lights flicker, screams resound, bodies pop up everywhere, Hymns are sung off stage, the bodies that have popped up disappear, and then what do you suppose? It all turns out to be a mean fraud staged by the wicked silk smugglers to scare people away from the scene of their activities. Mercy, we were nonplussed...
...example of what I mean is the printing in your last issue of a statement about birth control by the doctor who attends the British Royal Family.* If he "can find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control," then I have indeed been misinformed, and I intend to seek out the facts. I had thought that even a knowledge of this subject was in the nature of a "taint," but as a loyal citizen of the British Empire I have confidence that the example of the Royal Family is ever uplifting, never the reverse...
...speech of Dr. Straton must admit that both what he is quoted as saying and what he maintains he said are true. Literally he did say, "He had some elements of human decency about him even if he was a Jewish judge." But never in the world did he mean by this that a Jewish judge is not the kind of person in whom human decency is to be expected. Anybody who listened to what directly preceded and followed this rather infelicitous utterance must conclude that he meant what he now maintains that he literally said. And a this sense...
...other great powers, and there is great hurrying and scurrying in the French and British and Italian offices to answer is. For whatever recriminations pass between diplomats, the feeling of the people of the world seems to be for peace, with disarmament as the first step toward world security. Mean-while the British and Italian foreign offices tell their people through the press that the Russians always spoil every conference anyway, just as soon as it gets nicely going, and so the people must not expect too much of the conference at Geneva. France has also taken steps to keep...
...they weren't afraid of being "literary". Of the other contributors, not quite so much can be said. They play safe, they do not aim so high, and they fail, in consequence, to be very interesting. Life--one keeps thinking as one reads them--surely must mean more to them than this? And one turns back to the Dial, even in its wildest moments, with that sense of relief that one finds in the actual