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The loud slamming of the White House's front door shortly after March 4, 1929 was responsible for reverberating echoes about political Washington last week. The slammer was President Hoover; the slammee was a bristly-haired, thick-necked Tennessee lawyer named Col. Horace Mann.* A skillful organizer and patronage...
But it should be remembered that no intelligence test, however searching, can assure the acceptance of only those men who have a full endowment of a good doctor's qualities. No matter how ready a student may be in grasping medical facts, no matter how skillful with the scalpel, he...
The finished pupils of these exclusive "public schools", if ambitious for intellectual careers, passed into the two great universities, there to enjoy again the exclusive privilege of employing for their own development the unearned increment of centuries. Or if destined for the public service, naval, military or civil, or for...
The dialogue is even as skillful as the direction. Pungent with quips and wise-cracks, it snaps from player to player, yet is ever pointed and revealing. This reviewer, not having read the story from which the picture is taken, cannot form a comparison between them, but if Vina Delmar...
"In this crisis, it is to England's advantage that she has a strong constitution that her people are accustomed to going about their business in times of stress and that, in MacDonald and Snowden, she is attended by skillful surgeons."