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...people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven, but bourgeois opinion still holds that Palm Beach and romance go hand in hand. Author Hergesheimer does a good best to prick this bubble. Some of the stories...
Thomas William Lament, No. 2 Morgan partner, speaking before the Academy of Political Science in Manhattan last week, caused bankers throughout the land to prick up their ears when he recommended Federal Reserve membership for every last commercial bank in the country. Declared Banker Lament...
Like frogs in praise of Spring, British Literati Gould, Walpole, Bullett, Strong, Priestley, Straus periodically raise such a chorus in praise of some new Britisher's new book that U. S. publishers prick up their ears, try to reproduce the music on their side of the waves. Recent resulting importations are James Hanley's Men In Darkness and Boy, now supplemented by a first novel by Derbyshire Coalminer Boden. Though less savage than Hanley's books, Author Boden's novel treats the same general theme-the brutalizing misery of those on or below the economic ladder...
Chinese lawyers seemed agreed last week that Concubine Shu Fei can establish her "wife" status under the new Chinese Legal Code (TIME, July 27) and obtain a "divorce," if she can prove the neglect and mistreatment she alleges. Her cause celebre made other Chinese concubines prick up their ears, made Chinese husbands cogitate...
...straightforward discussion of these topics will involve the making of a few honest statements that are bound to prick a few of the self-righteous and certain to upset these in authority. Dr. Ruthven hardly can be much more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases...