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...went through the Black Country north of Birmingham, the pottery district of Staffordshire (Arnold Bennett's Five Towns), the slums of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, visited Blackpool (England's Coney Island), the collieries of East Durham. Everywhere he found something to interest and perturb him. His conclusions: "You go up and down this country and what makes you jump with astonishment and delight is something that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult...
There are several things about this announcement that perturb us. It may be, of course, that Mrs. Smith has chosen this quaint and premature method of sending a valentine to Ballantine. It may be that music, as a profession, has been underestimated. The eighteenth century method of capitalization indicates that a Philologist has been meddling. Who knows? At any rate, we hope that none of the guests will really be so coarse as to be found including a lady...
...which is stamped the motto & promise of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House: "I will maintain!" In The Hague last week pompous Mynheer Doktor Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank, mentioned an obvious fact: no "run" to exchange Dutch paper money for gold can possibly perturb the Netherlands Bank. Reason: the entire paper currency of the Netherlands is backed by a gold cover...
Turkish progress under the kinetic impulsion of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, was so rapid, last week, as to dazzle if not perturb Occidentals...
...that sounds ludicrous and a little contemptible to Italians. Another man might be annoyed but not "Shoot" Gubbio. He can contemplate worse than that with equanimity. The futility of mechanical "art," for example. Even the suicide of Giorgio Mirelli, a boy-genius whom he has tutored, does not greatly perturb him. Nor even the strange daemon of the beautiful woman who caused the boy's suicide. Emotionless? Oh, no. But he has taught himself to control his emotions so that he can serve the spider and yet preserve something more important than emotions: his soul, if you like...