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Something too much of this perhaps. But should you choose to read the book you will find five times more than too much of it. Mr. Washburn has overstated his case and lost his effect. He has tried to slap Coolidge on the back and Boston in the face at the same time, and has succeeded only in being ridiculous. He has also incidentally murdered the English language...
...newspapers which make fun of his accent: " Their ridicule is a slap at every immigrant. If I had come to this country when I was ten years old instead of 20, I probably could have overcome my foreign accent...
...reason for Poincaré's flurry was the refusal of the Senate to try Marcel Cachin and 33 other Communists, charged with making seditious speeches in the Ruhr. Poincare evidently felt this to be a direct slap in the face for him on his Ruhr policy. He marched to the Elysee, official residence of the French Presidents at Paris, interrupted an important dinner party, tendered his resignation. M. Millerand, however, refused to accept it, stating that the issue involved was not political but juridical. Poincare then withdrew his proffered resignation...
...East has taken a slap at the West. The People's Symphony Orchestra of Boston played the other day a piece by Saint-Saens entitled Hail California. This composition was written for the world's fair of 1915, and, existing only in manuscript, has been given heretofore nowhere else than in California. Presumably the Native Sons think highly of this music written in glorification of their state. The Bostonese, however, saluted Hail California as bad music. "The feeblest and least inspired piece of music written at full maturity by any modern composer of distinction...
Hollis.--"Bull-Dog Drummond", with H. B. Warner. A slap-dash mystery melodrama, which the audience swallows eagerly on the mutual agreement of "No Questions Asked...