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Politically we are monarchical, whereas Europe is either aristocratic or democratic. We tend to give our elected Presidents, Governors and Mayors the authority of absolute monarchs, and to suppress the importance and dignity of our Congress and Legislatures. It is an interesting argument, even if in all probability it is an inaccurate one, and in the course of it we are unexpectedly told that our political system is less corrupt than the British and Continental systems. This is not because our politicians are any better, but because we keep a collective eye upon them and "the man who exposes corruption...
Incensed at the news that 60 National organizations headed by the American Legion are banding to suppress radical thought, a small group of undergraduates met last night to discuss plans for forming a Harvard radical club to be known as "The Left Wing...
...walks with a stick,"- "the man with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...
Every author yearns at some time or other to write a book of the weird or supernatural. Recently May Sinclair gave herself rein with such a book and now E. F. Benson, rather than suppress the desire and become such stuff as Freudians feed on, has written "Visible and Invisible." (Dorah...
...malomorous reputation. It deals with the overpowering stench engendered by a rare and delicious fruit from China, which, when eaten (by two members of an English household)-permanently imbues them with the aura of a skunk. To inspire further jocularity, the men are compelled to wear diving suits to suppress the effluvia, while devoted friends visit them in gas masks. Eventually one of the men shoots himself, hounded to his grave by a smell...