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...Boston that banned the sale of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. It was Boston that kept Scribner's Magazine off the stands for printing the final chapters of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The list is endless, but Boston's tireless censorship is generally directed at the stage and the printed page. Not for many months has it bothered with sculpture and the fine arts...
...Gandhi is tireless in his crusade against intoxicants. The Royal Commission, notwithstanding that a trifle of their $400,000 expense account went for drink, reported in favor of "prohibition or restriction" in India?not Britain...
...Tireless Torquemada was appointed by Ferdinand & Isabella to enforce the decree as Grand Inquisitor. He and his Holy Inquisition succeeded as few men have ever succeeded since the world began. Their work endured for more than 400 years. Not until last week was a Jewish couple married by a rabbi in Madrid "publicly...
...little man with a big head and weak eyes, Schliemann's chief characteristic was his tireless energy. No cloistered scholar but a man of big affairs, he had the unabashed eccentricities of a millionaire. He "instructed every one on the healthy way to live, and if he saw pale women, he would say without ceremony: 'Why don't you take walks?' and to men with red necks: 'Why don't you bathe? You'll get apoplexy. Go for walks! Bathe!' " When he became displeased with Gladstone, "he took [Gladstone's] portrait...
...there the occa- sional Punch reader is too hasty, for hidden away in those oldfashioned, closely printed columns are to be found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend. Publishers Doubleday, Doran have collected them in a book which reads more entertainingly than most such collections...