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Rumors of Spanish political crises are as persistent as the odor of the onions named after the Iberian land. But Captain General Primo Rivera, "Spain's Mussolini," last week insisted that the inescapable effluvium savors not of crises but of peace, joy, contentment...
...received a good deal of his education in Germany and at the beginning of the War he fell into ill-odor on account of his pro-German sentiments. Not long ago he said: "The Germans are a great people, a tenacious, an industrious and indestructible people. I may claim to know them well. In England I am generally considered pro-German-and rightly so. My feelings toward Germany never have altered, and I never have concealed them. That is why I still am confident in her future. The Germans certainly are passing through a difficult period, but we in England...
...Brahms variations seemed very varied and very dull, inevitably recalling Huneker's simile of Brahms and the odor of new-mown...
...Edna is very unhappy. She thought she loved Jimmy, but last night she went to the theatre and fell in love with an actor. Of course the only thing left for her to do is to take the veil. Then she realizes as she pictures a death in the odor of sanctity that she really does love Jimmy after...
...night Mr. Walter Hampden revived Massinger's "A New Way to Pay Old Debts". The audience felt a trifle conspicuous in the vast emptiness of the Opera House, but the comedy soon put them at ease. It is a pity that revivals must always be veiled in the odor of sanctity, to be approached only with the deference due to age. Philip Massinger did not write for antiquarians and students of literature. He wrote for the gallants and ladies of Elizabeth, for their drapers and tapsters, their coachmen and chambermaids--and he won them all. He was the Winchell Smith...