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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear to tread. In his last group of clinical notes he disputes no less a person then a gentleman and writer, now too often slighted, one Quintus, Horatius Flaccus of Rome and the Sabine Hills. This Flaccus, whose poetry has gone into several editions, even being used as a text for stylists, once amiably asserted that there was truth in wine. Mr. Nathan objects: there is no truth in wine...
...Significance. This is no biography, no historical novel. It has no dates, no footnotes, no bibliography. It is a series of fierce impressions, summing into 150 small pages the impression of a man's life. It has terrific compression and impact. An example from the text...
OTHER EVENTS. 1) The delivery of the originals of the Locarno Pacts by Sir Austen Chamberlain to Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, as provided for in the text of the pacts themselves. 2) The issuance of invitations to prominent economists all over the world to attend a League Preparatory Committee which will organize a World Economic Conference with the broadest possible agenda...
...Athletics are secondary or should be," said Edward Duffey, editor of "The Dartmouth" and football player, in a telegram to the Boston Evening American last night, explaining the militant stand on football adopted by the delegates to the recent Wesleyan Conference. The text in full follows...
...local campaign; two thousand dollars for the advertising research of the year judged most conspicuous either for securing economy or efficiency in advertising, or for reducing or precluding unwise expenditure in a specific advertising program; three prizes of one thousand dollars each,--for the advertisement most effective in text, that most effective in use of pictorial illustration, and that most effective in combination of both text and illustration...