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...German people, as many know, have gone off on a physical culture twig. This Ufa film shows them at it-dancing in the valleys, chinning on the mountain tops, swinging, stretching, running, generally intensifying and multiplying the daily dozen...
Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...
...Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another. Let peace be between us, my brother, although your shears are impudent...
JARNEGAN-Jim Tully-A. & C. Boni ($2). Hollywood-leaf, twig, branch and roots...
...Rome she knew Mme. Montessori and wrote A Montessori Mother which was widely translated. Her two grown daughters-Mrs. Fisher is now 47-bear witness to an intelligent upbringing. Her study is on a Vermont farm. Other books that have come from it: The Squirrel Cage, The Bent Twig, Home Fires in France, The Brimming Cup, the U. S. translation of Papini's Life of Christ...