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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished lawyer, is a solid stratum of old-fashioned notions. His wife is also old-fashioned to the point of slightly addled brains. Son and daughter are of the newer scope, independent, impudent. They are constantly snooping about in quest of suppressed desires and easily fall under the spell of a fashionable, artificial poet-soul in spats. He preaches hypocrisy as the one great sin of a modern world where other sins have been abolished through epigrams...
...Youngstown, a controversy arose at the "copy" desk of the Vindicator, a newspaper. Did the Prime Minister of Great Britain spell his name with a "D" or a "d"? The telegraph editor took typewriter and paper, and sent a letter across...
...story which Wagner used for his Tristan is a story which has woven its spell around many another artist in tone or words. Poets without number have used it. It is perhaps the parent of the triangle-play; the plot is one which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan...
Questioned by a CRIMSON reporter, Mr. Sidney Wicks, editor of the Manchester Guardian, who is now touring this country, was much surprised to hear of this correction. "It has always been the practice among the more responsible papers to spell it with a small 'd', and my paper is regarded as the standard of good usage." Mr. Wicks made a search among some old books and journals, and finally found, in an old issue of the London Observer, edited by Mr. J. L. Garvin, an authority whom he regarded as unquestionable where a large "D" was used...
...difference does not appear important at first sight, but the total lift of the gas carries the structure, the motors and the crew. It is only the last 20% or so that is available for carrying fuel, and hence a difference of 10% in the gross lift may spell a difference of 50% in the fuel-carrying capacity. On long-distance flights this difference is vital...