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...cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive jaw, a wide, clear eye. He has written many books. Some of them: The A B C of Relativity, Education and the Good Life, Problems of Philosophy, Proposed Roads to Freedom, Why Men Fight, Marriage and Morals (TIME...
...These trenchant indictments are, to say the least, alarming, for Yale is one of the oldest and most revered institutions in the country. And with particular regret Harvard hears that the college to which she has been bound for so many years by sentimental ties, has come upon hard days. But the feeling of sorrow for Yale is mixed with admiration for those few of her sons who have had the wisdom and courage to bring before the world the fact that Yale is dying...
...trenchant defense of the Treaty, Scot MacDonald said: "It is our position that mere armaments will not give security. . . . Limitation by treaty is necessary. . . . Those who so much regret that the London Conference reached only a three-and not a five-power agreement should recall that only three powers attended the Geneva conference...
THIS, as its name suggests, is an intelligent survey of the principles and practice of seduction. Taking up scientifically a phase of amour that is familiar to most people above the fladging stage, Miss Hahn succeeds in outlining the popular methods of persuasion and in appending to them trenchant comments. Her attitude is impersonal and amoral. The result is a neat little book that is exquisitely humorous. No home, we venture to advise, should be without a copy...
Your recent references to A. R. Orage have greatly interested admirers of his trenchant critical pen in his old New Age days. One of the high spots of his editorship of that weekly was the sponsoring and of the the forcing Douglas "Social Credit Movement" and the forcing into spectacular journalistic combat of the famous economic " A plus B" Theorem. This latter declares that the total purchasing power of the community only secured by way of wages, salaries and dividends, is, under the present cost-accounting system, insufficient to buy back the total products of industry...