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...reading, most of them would never even see his "psychograph." Said he: "The Southerner reads the morning newspaper because he wants to know about the Society events and the election campaigns, which he regards in somewhat the same light; but he thinks books are suitable only for invalids." With roundabout irony which sometimes straightens into indignation Author Cason casts his dissatisfied eye over the Southern scene, finds it on the whole down-at-heel, lazy, complacent, resigned, ignorant, cynical, exasperating. Southern sensitiveness to criticism he calls "dangerously suggestive of what the psychologists used to call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot...
...University should never appear to be equivocating, nor should it be roundabout in its dealings with students. It held a defensible position in this matter, but it failed to adopt a forthright course...
Meanwhile the new Soviet envoy to Rumania, smart Minister Mikhail Ostrovsky, arrived at Bucharest by a comfortable roundabout route. When he presented his credentials to King Carol without mentioning Bessarabia, Rumanian editors concluded that, despite Soviet geography books, Dictator Stalin has decided to drop that question...
...appearing in his play. At a party after the opening night in Atlantic City, the brother of the Montreal derelict would have recognized in the cardsharp the villain responsible for his sister's disappearance. The playboy would have fallen in love with Janet Evans and this, by a roundabout chain of circumstances, would have saved the life of the convicted murderer. So carried away is Janet Evans by these glimpses into her discarded future that she is horrified when the Kansas City playwright, who would have been her husband, walks into Heaven's reading room and fails...
...harbor floated a great black banner and other streamers of crepe hung from nearly every window in the town when the Dubrovnik came in with its sad freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...