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...ADVANCES OF HARRIET-Phyllis Bottome-Houghton, Mifflin ($2). An average Bottome (pr. "Bot-tome") novel for those that like them...
...gave the night of the Trafalgar trouble to such once popular Laborites as John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Will Thorne and the Labor Party's present leader Old George Lansbury. At different meetings they were all booed and shouted down with such sarcastic cries as "We want bread not tome!" and "Tell us the old, old story...
Four years ago Marshal Wu went into the bleak, howling wilderness of Tibet (TIME, April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing...
Campus slang is fluid, capricious, varying from place to place. Last week the Columbia Spectator brought its readers briefly down to date, explaining that a complete campus slang dictionary "would probably fill a ponderous tome." At Miami University alone, it recalled, a survey by the English department revealed 103 terms for intoxication, 56 "ways of directing undesirables to take their leave," 62 names for Fords, 174 "undesirable mental conditions...
...Eager, Tome School, Port Deposit, Md.; George Ehrenfried, The Phillips Exeter Academy; E. I. Epstein, Boston Latin School; H. A. Fierst, Mt. Vernon High School, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; R. M. Fisher, Boston Latin School; Maurice Franks, Lawrence High School; N. R. French, Noble and Greenough School; Peirce Fuller, Middlesex School; Otto Gambacort, Boston Latin School; E. F. Gardner, Boston Latin School; P. E. Geier, University School, Cincinnati, O.; Benjamin Geisinger, Boston Latin School; Comstock Glaser, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield; V. B. Glunts, Boston Latin School;; C. E. Gold, Boston Latin School; Carl Goldberg, Boston Latin School; Reuben Goodman, Brockton High...