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...attempting his major task of providing Christmas amusement for us, the editor has rightly refrained from oversubtlety. It may seem to some that he might have allowed himself just a shade more licence in this respect. But the writer at least will not quarrel with him. With admirable good nature he has attempted to be all things to all men. The Puritan is given, in the ballad of Sir Brazen-pants, a story with a moral; the classical scholar cannot fall to derive satisfaction from the Christmas Version of "Times Danaos": while all must be stimulated by an entirely...
Premier Vintila Bratiano, 60, has his late brother's massive, commanding stature, and merely lacks in face and feature a trifle of Jon's finely chiseled strength. The nose has not so elegantly satyrlike a tip. The beard and mustache are a shade darker grey and notably less neatly trimmed than were those of Jon. Finally Vintila's eyes seem contented within the shelter of his heavy brows. The eyes of Jon twinkled or darted lightnings...
...gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed helmets. The battle began. Complained a Spartan warrior, "Their arrows fly thicker." "The better to shade us," quoth Leonidas...
...great place. The traditional intellectuality of Harvard seems to have reached that point in its life cycle which is best characterized by the cant term of decadent. They are over the peak. Their manners and personal graces are those of the Restoration, their collective temperament a shade in the direction of Baudelaire. A more charming bevy of wastrels is not to be found, or a more hospitable. Many interesting points of contrast between them and us are immediately apparent. Impervious to the depressing influences of democracy, the Cambridge helots are obsequious. In New Haven one is often on the same...
...Library officials also rebuked the Mayor during the week. He had accused them of tolerating "pro-British unAmerican" books upon their shelves. They wrote: "Even taking passages quoted at their worst, we believe these books should be supplied to the library patrons that they may be acquainted with every shade of opinion. In this the Chicago Public Library is like all other libraries in the world, a depository of human thought; consequently much of its contents are contradictory. "This exchange and freedom of thought we consider the primary function of a library, and in keeping with the American ideal...