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Salty sentiment, miniature suspense, and tuneful nonsense combine to make of Shirley Temple's "Captain January" a truly delightful morsel. Miss Temple is a sufficiently important national figure to have given rise to some pretty rabid opinion, both pro and con. At times perhaps there is a little too much of the demonstrative cherubim about her. There might even be some basis for the allegations that she is losing her figure. But when people start calling her a major menace, just put them down as being a little too emotional about their unemotionalism...
...dislike to deprive this heavenly minded Boston lady of the pleasure she seems to take in contemplating my supposed depravity, and especially do I hesitate to delete even this tiny morsel of drivel from the gurgling pacifism of the Millis book; but, I never made the statement. I never even heard of it until the author of the Road to War used it to support his delusion that the World War was caused by bad businessmen and bankers, and still more blood-thirsty preachers...
...Roosevelt's White House press conference last week, newswomen baited their hooks with a spicy morsel from Berkeley, Calif. There, one Martha Ijams, a spinster alumna of the University of California, had refused to carry on as hostess of a Charter Day alumni banquet because Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was No. i Charter Day speaker.*"I do not believe," Miss Ijams had sniffed, "that the world is so barren of persons warranting recognition that it should be necessary for the university to delve into politics to find someone worthy to receive the honor of being chosen Charter...
...hotbed of intrigue with an indescribably mixed population, is now the storm center of the civil war. Bulgaria, deprived of a Mediterranean port after the World War, is hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled but may have...
...through the heavy plank floor of the county courthouse, continued on to other pastures. Last week when the county clerk made one of his rare visits to the record room, he found most of the record books chewed to small shreds. One fat volume was eaten to the last morsel...