Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...UNDRESS-F. J. Hudleston-Little, Brown ($3.50). As librarian of the British War Office, Mr. Hudleston has pored these many years over curious volumes. To readers of Warriors in Undress it will be instantly self-evident that he long ago formed the excellent habit of jotting down a good thing when he sees it. Probably on these occasions he slaps his knee and cries: "By gad! That's good...
...more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming less rare. The graduate who brings his family back to parade and cheer is rendering homage to his totem, but the parades and the cheers are not the basic thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice a genuine glimpse of the true value of his loyalty, an idea of the work that is being done, of the changing standards, of the growing spirit, his totem becomes but a dry and lifeless symbol, the very negation of that driving force...
...most important thing about the farm relief proposals was nevertheless the parliamentary situation. The House had refused to pass the Haugen farm relief bill (TIME, May 31, THE CONGRESS) by vote of 212 to 167. It had previously passed a bill supported by the Administration creating a division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bill designed to aid farmers in forming and operating co-operative enterprises. In the Senate with an election coming on, and with the dissatisfaction registered by the farmers two weeks ago by the nomination of onetime Senator Brookhart and the defeat...
...Racing Club in Paris, Suzanne Lenglen and Mary K. Browne, one-time U. S. champion, stroked the ball to and fro. They are good friends and sometimes, in the long pretty rallies, they smiled at each other as if to say, "The spectators like this sort of thing," or "Isn't it exciting!" When MIle. Lenglen considered that a rally had lasted long enough, she hit the ball a little harder than other woman in the world can hit it and relieved Miss Browne of further worry upon the point in question. Often, too, Miss Browne managed to return some...
...Satan belongs to the postexilic period of Hebrew development and has no exact Indian counterpart, the word is here employed as the nearest translation of Kali (The Black), dread Indian devourer, cruel goddess of destruction and death. **Doubtless Health Officer Bundesen was responsible only indirectly. It is the usual thing for officials to get their publicity sheets written by underpaid newspaper reporters, the majority of whom are constantly on the lookout for "outside work" of any kind to fatten their slender purses...