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...Nationalist" Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, June 13). It seemed not unlikely that "Dictator" Chang was sounding last week the first brave notes of his swan dirge. At any rate, the Occidental diplomats at Peking did not honor his "inauguration" by their presence, seemed totally unimpressed. The wire was strung, the bags piled up (TIME, April 11) to barricade the Occidental quarter at Shanghai against possible Chinese violence after that city was taken by the "Nationalist" armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, March 28). Last week the danger of Chinese violence at Shanghai was thought to have vanished...
Fifty golden guineas ($255) and an added purse of $15,000 were "to be run for," in the language of Victoria, Regina, et Imperatrix. As the barrier was sprung, 16 "platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then...
...conclusion of this unprecedented, magnificent program, to the great surprise of the audience, the most alive man will be eaten before the eyes of the public. Highly strung and nervous persons are requested to leave the hall during this turn...
...most interesting bits in the book, which is made up of interesting bits strung together on long thin threads of personal narrative, are the chapters devoted to Jenny Lind and General Tom Thumb. The reviewer wonders how many readers shared his own ignorance of the fact that Barnum brought Jenny Lind to this country. The Swedish Nightingale was given to the American public as a proof that the sponsor of Joice Heth, the Fejee Mermaid, and the Model of Niagara could also produce some legitimate and more high-hat entertainment. Except for a few financial statements, the story of Jenny...
...writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...