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...night, that white flags were aflutter where Riffian machine guns popped when darkness fell. After conducting for five years one of the most stubborn "native revolts" of the present century against the encroachment of "civilized powers," Abd-El-Krim apparently decided last week that his jig was up???sued for peace, surrendered unconditionally...
...many states it became a political bogey. The peak of its power, it appears, came in about 1923. Soon, however, it began to disintegrate; scandal and dissension seized upon it internally; rival organizations sprang up???the Independent Klan, the Knights of the Flaming Sword, etc.?and in some places community pressure attacked it from without...
...unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic purists. The setting, which depicted a market place in ancient Lima, Peru, was in the best Russian tradition of a colorful and decorative, essentially two-dimensioned background. And against it the elaborate perfection of the actors' costume and make-up??? created a Rembrandt effect of warmth and color...
...score of years later. There are the same children?grown up??? at a house party. There is Phyllis, the wife; there is George, her husband (and who is he but little Martin grown up?); there is Joyce, the little girl whom Martin liked? and besides there is Martin, in body a man but really little Martin never-grown-up. Then begins the game of "Spies." Martin, the child, sees them, their petty annoyances, troubles of the spirit and of the flesh brought on by the loss of childhood's simplicity, and his meeting them with that simplicity puts them...
...President, after announcing that his mind was made up???that he would have Mr. Warren with or without the Senate's approval?practically backed down. To be sure, he went through the formality of offering Mr. Warren a temporary or recess appointment (which Mr. Warren declined) before nominating another man. But, inasmuch as Mr. Warren was staying at the White House during the later stages of the contest and, in some quarters, was even credited with having inspired the President's statement promising a recess appointment if the Senate refused a second time, the President's action can be looked...