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...under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs is conducted by persons "with huge financial resources" in nearly every land. The Council then voted impotent concurrence with recommendations made by Senator Dandurand as to how this traffic might be suppressed; 4) Made public, in emasculated form, the second part of the report presented...
...Roman Catholic bishops of the U. S. Episcopate on the subject of the present religious controversy in Mexico (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.). Though His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes issued the encyclical at Manhattan, it was drafted by four middle western bishops and betrayed in many a line the trenchant, winning pen of the Rt. Rev. Francis C. Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma. The keynote...
Polemics seem the only answer for such a book, especially when Professor Barnes of Smith can label it as "trenchant, timely, and courageous." But, after all, it seems sufficient to warn its readers that here is presented only one side of an international question with very grave omissions of fact, that no valid judgment on the Great War will be pronounced until another generation, and finally that much of Mr. Bausman's argument has very little to do with the debt question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear...
Amusing, even trenchant, are the remarks which Robert Littel (himself a critic of no mean ability) has to offer, in the New Republic, concerning the art of book reviewing. His article, whether taken seriously as a professional indictment or genially as a personal confession gives rise to a feeling that what he says is more or less true. Reviewers, Mr. Littel writes, are notably overworked persons; and consequently their styles the excepts a choice minority) have come to be strangely, and most grotesquely, similar. They seem to have certain words which they invariably use, and without which no book review...
...journalist than as a professor at the University of Illinois. And this was a ponderous pundit, not an explosive, like "the diabolical little boy with a bean-shooter," H. L. Mencken. But the ponderousness was the weight of great sincerity; in controversy it would give place to trenchant power as when a big-boned man rolls up his sleeves to fight. His subtlety and strength were in expressing the homelier virtues and pleasures of mankind. He had a feeling for tools, horses, unmistakably American landscapes, Whitmanesque humanities. He would write a word like "roots" or "bones" as though it were...