Word: subs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summarize; "Sons and Lovers" is a careful and detailed account of a rather sub-normal life. It is well written, very well written. But still one wonders just why Mr. Lawrence should have written at all about such a commonplace and dull topic...
Congressional investigation of the conduct of the Veterans' Bureau (TIME, Nov. 5) continued with more hearings before a sub-committee of the Senate. The evidence presented, while almost entirely that of the investigators, pointed to a network of graft and political " pull." Some of the charges were...
...with us. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) is a good sample of its kind?and good of its kind. But the kind is not lasting. And, in general, our accredited novelists seem to prefer to deal, if not with brokers, artists and young collegians, at least with the Babbitts and sub-Babbitts of the middle class...
...Nashville woman is reported to have slain her seat-neighbor in a movietheatre for reading the sub-titles out loud. Enduring the unpleasant interruption as long as she was able, she must finally have given way to "that uncontrollable impulse" and have imposed summary justice upon the offender. And "justice" of a kind it certainly was, for another movie-goer in another part of the country was fined severely some time ago for this same offence which brought about the demise of the first Nachville woman...
...What he did say was this?that he was extremely interested in the sub-ject?that there was much merit in some of the arguments against vivisection, that he was greatly impressed with the character of the men and women in the antivivisection movement, and that, if elected mayor, he promised to look thoroughly into the question and, if satisfied of its soundness, to give the movement his cordial support...