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...mundane areas of the Smith Quadrangle and the Standish back yard into an extra Venice Lido, is symbolic of something in fact anything. It is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end: it is the pleasant death agony of the Freshman year and the natal travail of the Sophomore: it is a pre-examination respite and an opportunity for examination of feminine prerequisites; it is--it is the time of kingdom coming and the year of Jubilee...
...Circus Princess. Invariably, inevitably, Shubert operettas record the travail of royalty romancing incognito, the while platoons of chorus girls in superlatively gorgeous colors stamp across brilliant backgrounds. The Circus Princess is "the most pretentious operetta ever presented by the Messrs. Shubert." What happens...
When Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill presented his last budget (TIME, May 3), Great Britain was on the verge of her greatest industrial travail of the present century, the vast and paralyzing general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) and the long drawn out nagging coal strike which began at the same time and dwindled to a close TIME, Nov. 29) without ever being formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers...
...Only the mother, Louisa, senses his new, deeper travail. She leaves Walt more alone than ever, except to put food where he can get it and unlatch the kitchen window when he is gone to wander in the night, during months of vision, revision, destruction and creation, months of the purgation, despair, and finally the vehement triumph of a man giving his whole self to his country and his kind...
First comes the desire to quell the animosities and race hatreds which, let loose by the war, might well continue to go far toward tearing down the civilization built up with travail and difficulty in the course of many centuries...