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...Flaying this platitude as "weak and vague," the Paris Press clamored for an end to what was called "the massacre of Ministries." As yet no French would-be-dictator loomed, but that slashing Conservative, onetime Premier Andre Tardieu, get out on a stump-speaking tour of the provinces to thunder: "Liberty must be protected by Authority!" Though protesting that he does not aspire to become a Hitler or Mussolini, M. Tardieu warned that "There are rising at the doors of France regimes of mass dictatorships imported from Asia . . . demanding: in France a strong government conscious of her historic mission...
When President Lowell accepted fifteen millions of Harkness dollars to build the Houses, he stole the thunder which rightfully belonged to Yale. Thanks to Harvard's promptness and Yale's hesitancy, the College Plan at Yale went into effect this fall with none of the din and fury which accompanied the start of the House Plan at Harvard...
...Thunder on the Left (adapted by Jean Ferguson Black; Henry Forbes, producer). Christopher Morley's story, which 100,000 people have bought since it was published in 1925, is a strange and lovely book. One of the strangest qualities has now been revealed for the first time: it is adaptable to the stage...
...every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...
...make the captain holystone the deck, he kills the sober ringleader and is killed himself. Like all revolutions, the mutiny swings rapidly Left and toward the captain's beautiful widow. At the end of its swing it meets the mate who has gotten a pistol. Ac companied by thunder, lightning, howls and pistol shots, he gets control of ship and sweetheart...