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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year old Countess of our own best-seller, "Black Oxen", is a mere babbling infant, brings to the role the voice and the intelligence that it demands. D. D. Driscoll, '26, as Dr. Kolonaty, and Edwards Sanchez, '26, as Baron Pruss, give really delightful characterizations. Both have the rare quality of distinction. Mr. Driscoll possesses the vitality and driving power which is always thrice welcome in an amateur production...
Hangars will not disappear. They will simply be fewer. The usual procedure in commercial dirigible operation will be to moor at the mast, but to maintain hangars nevertheless as a species of "dry dock," where ships will come at rare intervals for thorough overhauls. Since mooring masts are comparatively cheap, the economy realized will greatly facilitate commercial operation...
...agrees with Sukhanov, whom he quotes, that Lenin was a genius. Although the man had "an extremely limited mental horizon", having made up his mind at the age of twenty-three to adhere to the Marxian principles, he was "uncommonly potent and prolitic within these limitations. He was a rare combination of a doctrinaire, a statesman, and a popular leader; he was both visionary and practical...
...novel, accuses Oxford of all places of regarding the student "as a high school boy . . . who lives together with his fellows under a severe discipline that regulates even the hours of his going out." The student body is cynically divided into athletes and esthetes--of whom the latter are rare. No disillusionment could be more cruel if one is to retain one's faith, one must ascribe this bitter attack to a survival of ancient Anglo-French animosity...
...Presidency of Taft and Wilson, he- Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio-was a Senator. He is back in the House now, and from its floor he rose last week to pay the Senate a compliment as rare as it was pretty...