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Visiting Englishmen almost invariably have a lot to say about the U. S. Almost invariably it is pretty stale stuff. Wyndham Lewis may have an advantage in being half American; in any case his America, I Presume is a bracing exception to the general rule. Some of it is obvious, some misfires, a good deal is so good it inspires keen regret that it is not a great deal better. Taken as a whole, America, I Presume can be guaranteed neither to bore nor blindfold any U. S. reader...
...Stadium, they booed the 1915 Ivy Orator's incongruous and long-winded speech when they discovered that he was no longer being funny, but was speaking in deadly earnest. Presumably they booed because his empty rhetoric and talk of not being "too proud to fight" was a stale attempt to blur the complex issues of national policy with outworn moral aphorisms. And many Seniors are today sick and angry because they are being asked to attend an admittedly partisan "preparedness" meeting which will seek to make capital out of Commencement-day idealism...
They include sponges, jellyfish, earthworms, brittle stars, crustaceans, insects, spiders, molluscs, squid, marine worms, hydroids, siphonophores, sea pens, cteno-phores, corallines, myriapods, balanoglos-sids, ascidians, fish. There are also two kinds of luminous plants-certain bacteria and fungi. These are responsible for the dim shining of damp wood and stale meat, the ghastly glow occasionally seen on human corpses...
...should want your own ideas carried out. Here a true creation must be born with labour and pains ... to secure an impudent little lid either from the big popular store or the "Grande Modiste" needs a desperate tussle in a tropically-heated battle-room, heavy with a smell of stale scent and hot hard work . . . screaming like a jay amongst jays . . . still, for those who still care what they look like, it's worth...
...foreign coal if her industry is not to stop. Normally she imports four-fifths of her coal. German coal could be routed via Switzerland to Italy by rail, but the hard-pressed Reich cannot spare enough rolling stock for that. Last week Dictator Mussolini began warming up again the stale Rome-Berlin Axis...