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...hands-adjourned the session soon afterward to prevent more blundering. In Germany a large section of the Press was indignant. Germania, the Cabinet organ, flayed "M. Briand's astoundingly sharp answer to a calm and purely objective speech by the German Foreign Minister." French Plan. The Curtius-Briand quarrel brought United-States-of-Europe talk to an abrupt halt. It also weakened the slender chance that the League Council (which can only act by unanimous vote) would be able to get anywhere with its May agenda. When the Council met, two days later, two of its biggest jobs were...
...passed. Not until March 21 did Ford, Ltd. smell a rat, on hearing that Dr. Owen had been suspended as Director of the Oxford Institute. General Manager Smith called up Dr. Owen at his luxurious hotel in Cannes. Dr. Owen said that his suspension was due to a "personal quarrel" at Oxford and would not affect Ford, Ltd.'s nomination. Suspicion, during the next three weeks, built its nest around the Perfect Swindler. His letterheads and his clichés, it was noticed, were not quite like British officialdom's letterheads and cliches. By April 16, Dr. Owen...
...Burly, brusque and boisterous, like a bluff sailor, always bringing a breeze of quarrel with him," Cooper had warm friends: one of them was his wife. After 30 years of marriage he wrote to her: "I do not think I am a bad father, and yet I love my wife a little better than any child I have, good as all mine are. Can this be because the wife is so good, or because I am a fool?" He loved to play chess with her, Pepyshly noted in his diary who won. He was a good sport. Once he sent...
...book is chiefly concerned has just this vague, rather exasperating indefiniteness. Mr. Peterson seeks to justify this and the often baffling images invoked by the poet as true to the dim and distorted mirrors of man's mind on which are recorded the images of external objects. One cannot quarrel with the author's competent interpretation of Alken's method, but there is a difference of opinion as to the value of this type compared to the behavioristic mode of writing in which the actions of a character are described and explained from without. Subjective writing is very effective...
...arch fiend of slavery. As a matter of fact he was not. He tried to take a middle course on the issue, to weasel on it just as politicians today weasel on Prohibition. He favored settlement of the question in each new State by "popular sovereignty." His quarrel with Buchanan arose because he thought the President had gone over bag & baggage to the extreme pro-slavery camp in trying to make Kansas a slave State. Declared Senator Douglas of the Lecompton constitution: "It's none of my business which way the slavery clause is decided. I care not whether...