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...Bread Trust" Done. In Baltimore last week the $2,000,000,000 Ward Food Products Corp., although willing to fight the Government dissolution suit under the anti-trust laws (TIME, Feb. 22), consented to surrender its charter and sever all relations that might savor of monopoly. Provided this be done, the prosecution was withdrawn...
...times of the average citizen a quarter century ago, his politics, his fashions in clothes, his advertisements, his economic problems, his popular songs, his heroes and his leaders, his jokes, his prophecies pathetic and otherwise, his medicine and his science, his art, his music and his literature. A unique savor is lent to the whole by more than 200 illustrations: cartoons of issues that were, plates of fashions that were, photographs of yesterday's political leaders as they were, and of today's political leaders as they then were, pictures of the stage as it was, scores of popular songs...
Pablo Picasso, the artist, likes fried eggs. They probably taste to him much as they taste to another man, but because he is a great painter he is capable of liking them more passionately and more concretely than your common fellow. It is not merely their savor that appeals to him; it is their mass and rhythm. The concentric ovals of their yolks and whites, the fecund chromes bewitched to a dark gold, haunt his dreams with the memory of a beauty marvelous and fugitive. To satisfy the demands of that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs...
...exhibit them as an offset to the cheap jeers and unintelligent opposition' which characterize pacifist procedure." Thus it is evident that at least two prominent American journals see in a "boast of heraldry" and its accompanying "pomp of power" the renascence of middle western morale. Yet does not this savor a bit of "unintelligent opposition" to the active desire of the people of the western world that there exist a real appreciation of the vitality of peace...
Beyond question, the gradual extinction of what was once a flourishing department is explicable in terms of the modern attitude toward old-fashioned public speaking with its strong savor of Websterian oratory. English 10 was deeply imbued with this tradition. To day the too polished speaker is more apt to be distrusted than admired; the prevailing theory, unfortunate as it often is in its results, is that if a man be sufficiently full of his subject, the words will come. To betray attention to old time rules of inflection and gesture, imperfectly mastered, is far more disastrous to the modern...