Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These last years of Paul Claudel have been a little baffling to the Japanese. Here was a hard, shrewd statesman of the first rank who would draw a shapeless caricature for his dinner partner and remark with emphatic sincerity: "Madame, I would give my whole position and perhaps half my talent could I learn to draw or sculp...
...Browning trial and the Nicaraguan question, and therefore when the Boston Post (not Emily Post because Emily is above that sort of thing) turns savagely on this institution and says that Harvard men are responsible for the way Radcliffe girls, dress--well, then, things, as Red Grange used to remark, have come to a pretty pass. Not but that the young ladies at Radcliffe don't wear fetching rigs--ah no, no indeed. There are few more charming sights than to see them flooding into the Cooperative at dusk, trim in their little middies and albeit laughing gaily and swinging...
This isn't very pressing and in fact those who pursue frankness to the point of rudeness have told us that it could wait indefinitely--but the time has come when one may remark upon the enormous consequences which have arisen from the contemporary Passing of Arthur...
Since these remarks flatly contradict the maxim of Mussolini: "'Nothing outside the State! Nothing against the State!" the Vatican news organ, Osservatore Romano, sought next day to soften the Pope's rebuke to Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
...February number of the Advocate contains a fair portion of thoughtful and entertaining writing. The pages to which most readers at Harvard will first turn are those devoted to Mr. Donald Gibbs' "Sawdust Trails in the College"--a kind of "apologia", it may be conjectured, for a recent remark which attained a wider currency than its author intended. Mr. Gibbs' subject is the 'student conference' which too often reaches, in the name of a free discussion of educational problems, no higher result than the training up of the student delegates who attend toward a "future of fair Rotarian godliness...