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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formidable prospect, and only one defense can be suggested. The spell of the tropics must be played up to its full value. Ukuleles and guitars must be brought out in force to greet the conquering heroine; the weatherman must be prevailed upon to remind her of torrid suns, and perhaps that subtle nostalgia that worked on Ganguin. Stevenson, and the other South Seamen will call her back to Papua for peaceful sovereignty where she has already conquered...
...ominous in its potential results. France has not necessarily committed a hostile act: in her own official words, she is merely sending "a mission of engineers and functionaries" to supervise details of carrying out treaty terms, and nothing more. But the magic circle has been broken. With the spell lifted, there is no foreseeing...
...clothed in the richest drapery of metaphor, lulled a fashionable audience into a semi-slumbrous condition yesterday afternoon while he voiced his theories on self-healing." And so a new healer, stealing a rival's thunder, appears in New York, and hypnotizes an audience eighty percent women, by the spell of his voice and the music of a fine orchestra...
...again the lighting was bad, though better than on the previous night. The scenery too had taken a turn for the better. The bounder of Marguerite Gautier looked as if it too had been purified by love until the frantic glare of all available footlights and borders broke the spell of the darkness...
Book-marking is a form of self-expression which, unfortunately, does not need encouraging. There is more than enough of it already. The man who advises Professor R. B. Perry not to discuss Nietsche's philosophy, until he learns how to spell his name, is no doubt well informed, but hardly modest. He goes on to improve the book by inserting a "z" in the name wherever it occurs, and incidentally expresses some views of his own on Nietzsche. A second reader opines that the first reader may not know so much about "Nietche" as he thinks he does...