Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asserted that President Coolidge's reluctance to a special session sprang from political reasons. Summoned, Congress might make a flood appropriation; then open up the Vare scandal and the Smith scandal, consider an anti-third term resolution, in general prove embarrassing to the President...
...Robert T. Jones Jr. of Atlanta holds the British men's open title; Jess Sweetser of New York, the British men's amateur...
...retired from gay Paris to austere seclusion when his early marriage ended disastrously. He compiled biographies of famous men, a history of opera, novels, plays, screeds on pacifism. In 1914 he appeared in Geneva to work for the Red Cross, to enrage "La Patrie" by excoriating "La Guerre" in open letters to other pacifists. Still, at 61, a flayer of warriors, he includes a savage portrait of "Tiger" Clemenceau in Mother...
...life. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. The author's scrutiny falls, not on one but on many personalities. Now, in her brilliant offensive on the human soul, she does not perpetrate an open advance. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers the nature of her prey. The actual capture she leaves to those who, reading her book, are her companions in the chase...
WHOOPS, DEARIE!?Peter Arno? Simon & Schuster ($1.75). Their weekly parade in the New Yorker (Manhattan smart-chart) has long been an event?Pansy Smiff and Abagail Flusser of the muffs and flounces and awry plumed bonnets, their potato noses high in air, their cavernous, Cruikshankian mouths thrown open in something like...