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...Anglo-Irak Treaty (TIME, Feb. 15,) which His Majesty's fiery Colonial Secretary, Colonel Leopold Stennett Amery defended in part as follows: "The rejection of this covenant would make Great Britain ridiculous in the eyes of the League of Nations, contemptible in the eyes of the Turk and odious in the eyes of the people of Irok...
...comparatively minded commentators that Mr. Sydney is perhaps not so perfect in the role as John Barrymore. Ethier, say these same, is as good as Mr. Lionel. Violet Heming is considerably better than the girl six years ago (her name escapes). But comparisons, as has been said, are odious. The present Jest is far too fine to admit of them. It easily ranks among the scattered few you must not miss...
Apparently this great romance was nothing very odious from the hints in the first instalment: "When Senator Brandegee, then young and handsome, entered the drawing room where the gay party was being staged and saw his beloved ideal sitting on a table and smoking, he was so shocked that he turned on his heel and left without a word." This incident it appears doomed him to "gloomy bachelorhood" . . . until weighed down with sorrow and loneliness he ultimately committed suicide. It would be ridiculous, were it not that the dead man deserves better at the hands of the living...
...CRIMSON, among the first to oppose the new system when it was announced last spring, now gladly withdraws its objections in the light of last Saturday's performance. Save for a few offensive exhortations to "Talk it up!" or, still more odious, to "Pep it up!" which will, it is to be hoped, be omitted hereafter, the new order of cheer leaders seemed fully as dignified, and far more capable than the more casual leaders of the past...
...lots of our ideas of government from comic operas and then take ourselves as seriously as Sitting Bull"). From "The Ghost of Gough Street" and "Shakespeare and the Old Vic" one gets a faintly disturbing impression of anglomania, soon dispelled by the mordant judgments of "Are Comparisons Odious?" (on English lecturers and tailors, French politeness and libraries, American politicians and platitudes) and the warm enthusiasm of "Change Cars at Paoli"† (on historic spots near...