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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patten: "Well, Cyrus calls himself a Democrat, but I don't know. Cyrus is a Democrat, I guess, because he was born that way, but I think he votes the Republican ticket about as often...
...famed political economist, released last week at London statistics showing that for the past century and a quarter 60% of all British Cabinet members have been hereditary titled aristocrats. This significant discovery was touted as proving that the British governmental system is not, after all, "democratic," as it is often declared to be. Further research by Professor Laski appeared to show that only 23 businessmen have ever become Ministers of the Crown...
...pictures fostered by the Society of Independent Artists, who are notorious for their lack of dignity, their poor taste, and the total inexclusiveness of their membership. But the Independent Artists shows are noted also for their originality and the excitement they cause among untutored art patrons. The exhibition is often referred to as a "circus" or a "rodeo" by such stubbornly facetious reporters as are sent, instead of art critics, to report the affair for newspapers. To exhibit an object of art under the auspices of this nonjury, non-prize-awarding organization, it is only necessary that the manufacturer...
Concerning THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder, (Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1928. $2.50), it has all been said so well not to say often. One hundred and thirty thousand in four months, eleven thousand sold in England, hailed by a professor of English in the University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post...
...Landor like, Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and mystic, in his sixty-seventh year has compiled such a collection which he calls FIREFLIES (Macmillan Co., New York, 1928, $2.50). On the flyleaf is Tagore's explanatory inscription, "Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting of fans and pieces of silk...