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...Shaw, the famous Irish wit is made to look like a second rate effusion of Mr. Colley Cibber. Shaw, "has the brain of a juvenile Machiavelli superposed on a crybaby, philistine, middle-class soul... His brain is a half-inch layer of champagne poured over a bucket of Methodist near-beer." All Mr. De Casseres sees in Shaw is the mountebank who jigs for money, the Barnum of the drama, and nothing else. After reading this book the Shabian bubble is pierced...
...orator, he speaks cautiously and without humor. His political motto: "Don't rock the boat." Out of Congress: He lives frugally at the Woodley Apartments in Washington, avoids society. He is uneasy among strangers, has few close friends. His hobby: solitaire. He smokes inexpensive cigars, is a devout Methodist, rides to the Capitol on the street car. He holds a part-time paid position on the national council of the Woodmen of the World. Each year he saves some of his $10,000 Congressional salary...
...politics, two women and the stock-market have been among the vital interests of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. All of his brethren deplored his gambling in stocks, and at the Dallas convention of his church last spring, he tearfully promised to gamble no more, was forgiven (TIME, May 26 et seq.). But four of his brethren in the South still deplored his conduct in general, which they felt unfitted him for the service of God. While he was honeymooning in Brazil with the second of the two women who have been dear...
...Southern Methodist of Texas, one of the few unbeaten teams of 1929, forced Coach Knute Rockne to send in his regulars at the start of the second period. Even then Notre Dame did not get the winning touchdown until shortly before the last whistle. Score: Notre Dame 20, Southern Methodist...
...figure for 1929, when, however, only 4812 students were tabulated. The Hebrew total of 765, or 14.9 percent, an increase of .6 percent over last year's figures, is followed by the Roman Catholic, 726 or 14.1 percent, Congregational, 537 or 10.4 percent: Presbyterian, 469 or 9.1 percent: Methodist, 431 or 8.4 percent, and Unitarian, 364 or 7.1 percent. Each of these groups shows a slight increase in actual number over last year's record...