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...lonely wild swans. These come in the book's many interludes, as where Neddy Joe, the ancient lodge-keeper, sits in warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains and was her darling for 20 years-and then unwraps from his patterned kerchief some songs...
...data available leads to an obvious conclusion. America is wealthy, powerful, and politically-minded. She holds a strategic position in the economic world and possesses enough political ability to exploit it. And her journalists respond with unpremeditated "hurrahs". While the rope of sand holds, this new "Condescension in Americans" will retain its still plebeian savoir faire...
...Loves and New. E. M. Hull, who wrote The Sheik is responsible for the narrative genesis of this gaudy chapter. It is about English people in the sand countries and ends up with an elephant stepping on the wicked Lord's head. Lewis Stone and Katherine MacDonald are the protagonists...
...William Burke Miller, $1,000, for best reporting. His subject was Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Ky.; his paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...party plowed back across the Sahara, smitten sorely by sand- storms, but not before M. Maurice Reygasse, savant and Governor of the Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded...