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Kiplingites will remember with a pleased grin, anti-Kiplingites with a shudder, that very Kiplingesque creature "Mrs. Hauksbee," the hardbitten, hard-headed Anglo-Indian army wife in Plain Tales from the Hills who knew what was what, was fond of uttering scraps of omniscience in scriptural Kiplingo. In English Authoress Ann Bridge's heroine, Mrs. LeRoy, Kipling readers will recognize a perfect re-edition of Mrs. Hauksbee. Mrs. LeRoy, empire-building wife of an oriental expert, has to live at the British Legation at Peking while her children are at school in England. Time: the unpleasant present...
...only question: Will inflation succeed? Upon the answer (which many think will soon be apparent) depends the immediate economic future of the U. S. If it succeeds the downward spiral of deflation will be definitely checked. If it fails, historians may well look back upon 1932 with a shudder. In prospect, however, was not the wind of wild printing-press inflation which afflicted Germany and France but rather a rescue of credit from its enemy, deflation. Success required large plans, bold...
...with other heads of families, inwardly shudder at this picture with its insidious propaganda of love and beauty. How can we train our children to become racketeers if their imaginations are formed daily by such examples? Shame on TIME and book publishers who brazenly adopt such pornographic circulation methods...
...whisper wakes, the shudder plays...
Like the New York Evening Post, the august Times last week gave an editorial shudder at the picture of a corpse on an autopsy table, front-paged by Macfadden's blatant Graphic (TIME. Sept. 28). The Times charged the tabloid with "ghoulishness," revealed that the forbidden picture had been snapped through a window which "may explain, but it only aggravates, the offense...