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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vegetarians, especially ethical ones, are criticised by a great many people; they are in the minority and their ethics are beyond the realm of culture of people of Mr. Bartsch's type. He writes, "I know she is a vegetarian." How clever of him! I, too, have a mental picture of Mr. Bartsch; it is that of a big, husky heman, full of vim, vigor and "boloney," sitting down to his manly meal of camouflaged dead body (or perhaps he eats...
Faults. The great lords of trade and peers of the realm thus addressed are not accustomed to being told that they have faults. Several sat up palpably bristling as Edward of Wales laid down two premises which, if valid, lead straight to the conclusion that even Tycoons may be slothful, obtuse, incompetent...
...existing law. In addition, the repeal of the present regulation will lift a heavy load from the shoulders of the careful small-car driver. At present the safe driver bears an insurance burden saddled upon him by the carelessness of others. Finally, by removing insurance from the realm of law, the state will be saved those bickerings between insurance men and politicians it recently experienced. In the face of so many powerful considerations the present compulsory insurance law requires more than mere legislative inertia to justify its continuance on the statute books...
...wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and the whole of the little realm of Montenegro...
Most definitions of art are vague, inconclusive. Italian Philosopher Benedetto Croce murmurs abstrusely of "expression." Spanish Philosopher George Santayana distinguishes art as an extension of utilitarian practices into the realm where utility is forgotten and pleasure begins. Thus, a tribal dance pleading for the gift of rain is not art, whereas a ballet, tripped for its own sake, may be. In Manhattan, last week Sculptor George Gray Barnard defined art as the creations of those who possess the "Great...