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Reading these books you will partake ot the cream of this season's literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE CREAM. | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Negroes wallowing in extreme depravity. He makes the comparatively chaste, intelligent heroine most unhappy. The hero, an ambitious graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is discouraged, disillusioned, thoroughly seduced and debauched by a saffron sadist who curses her race tor its jealousy of "rising" members and its hypocritical renunciation ot "nigger" instincts. There is no health in the book, no humor. There is feverish color, hot animalism, degradation. Whether he has told the truth or not-and the glossary appended shows that he at least knows Negro language-jaded Author Van Vechten will, henceforth, probably avoid the headquarters of Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 23, 1926 | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...careful reader, desirous of obtaining a more intensive knowledge ot the subject, no less than the eager student, the footnote is a boon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...Assisi, who talked with birds, who received upon his body the stigmata of the Wounds of Christ. The reigning pontiff: . . . Since our immediate predecessor has assigned this saint, who was sent by Divine Providence for the reformation not only of the turbulent age in which he lived, but ot Christian society of all times, to Catholic organizations engaged in social activities as their patron, it is only right that our children who labor in this field according to our commands should in union with the numerous Franciscan brotherhood call to mind and praise the works, the virtues and the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican Notes: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Briand was elected by the left. He advocated policies, not so extreme as Herr. ot's, but definitely opposed to the capitalist-militarist doctrine of Poincare. And upon these policies, the right was Briand's foe. Now, however, in seeking to stay the franc, already sunk to an unspeakably low ebb, the Briand government has placed the crucial matter of debts and debt liquidation into the hands of expert financiers, hoping that they can evolve a solution The Premier's supporters on the left, who have less to lose from a financial debacle than the more capitalistic right have deserted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLOSSUS | 6/4/1926 | See Source »

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