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...some of her characters lets you have tantalizing glimpses that are not half enough. What she lets you see of young brother James, a glowering but attractive rebel, would make any reader call for more. In the silence of his crib James was given to versifying his wrongs. One scorcher...
...note was a scorcher, a strangler, but written in that backhand fashion called "the language of diplomacy.''* On its face it merely informed M. Briand that Italy would consider it a friendly act if France should sign no agreement or treaty at London to which Italy was not a party. This meant, of course, that Italy would consider it an unfriendly act on the part of France if she should sign a four-power treaty with the U. S., Britain and Japan or any one of 25 tentative special Anglo-French "security agreements" (TIME, April 7), drafts of which were...
Street Scene. The Manhattan house is divided against itself. There are apartments on both sides of the hall, on every floor. The June day has been a scorcher ?"Hottest July fifteent' in fawty-one yizz. Yeah. Six dead in Chicago and no relief in sight, the paper says"?and Mrs. (First Floor) Florentine, Teuton wife of the Italian music teacher, is telling Mrs. (Second Floor) Jones how she "sveat all day, took a bat and sveat some more." Abraham Kaplan, also first floor, strains his eyes, moves his lips as he reads the Jewish Forward in the sultry...