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Ambassador Harvey: " I arrived in Washington from London to be the two weeks' guest of the President and Mrs. Harding. The White House truck had to make two trips from the station to bring our 20 trunks."
In the last score of years, American law-makers have multiplied petty regulations with such unrestricted ardor that the wonder is that any statute is obeyed without compulsion. Examples of foolish, needless legislation are plentiful. In South Carolina, the playing of pool or billiards has been forbidden. The prohibition of...
Mr. Mantell's scenery has long been a by-word for the medieval in stage design. The interiors for "Richelieu" were amazing feats of architecture, but the one exterior, in the garden of the Louvre, was far more individual. Eyes were suddenly drawn from a landscape of unnatural vegetable growths...
The class-room, legally, mentally, and morally, is no place for the indulgence of "humours". That it has been so in the past may in great measure be responsible for the crime waves and slackening of the moral fibre that is apparent today. The teaching conditions throughout the country are...
"Tomorrow". M. Barthon is reported to have said after reading the latest Russian billet-doux, "tomorrow we will be packing our trunks or buying bathing suits." At present the choice of the French delegation is not know it does not greatly matter. The Genoa conference seems no nearer its supposed...