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...where the charred remnants of lip sticks and rouge preface a return to decency and honesty, there lie also the ashes of a certain amount of truth. When one sets out to burn from truth all vain coverings, one often scorches truth itself. So perhaps the students of this southern college are not quite free from vanity after all. For what is vanity but a kind of ignorance? A glorified ignorance...
...news of his forthcoming, formal entrance into society is taken very calmly. After looking in vain all over the front page, the royal clipping bureau has to content itself with a brief notice culled from among the news of debutante dances and stock reports. Unacquainted with modern psychology, this hopelessly old-fashioned Pharaoh bungled his entrance. His fame preceded his person and died so long ago that it is now even more ancient than himself. It is too bad they did not have expert publicity agents in old Egypt...
Certain readers are ever fond of rushing into print and obscuring the points at issue. Would Mr. Young [TIME, Oct. 5, LETTERS], tell me in what dictionary he found "bathysophical" ? I have searched in vain in Webster's, Stormonth, The Century, Concise Oxford, Pocket Oxford, and if I had access to the great Oxford I am not so sure that I should have found...
...German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
...artist whose exhibition followed that of the more popular and better advertised Zuloaga at the Vose Galleries last winter, seeks a human likeness to his conception of Christ. A short while ago the original model, an Italian ice cream vendor, died. Since then the artist has searched Europe in vain for one to take his place. This painting of the Christ was to be the great achievement, crowning all others, which was to complete Mr. Branwyn's artistic career. And now it is doomed to remain without a face. For nowhere can he find features with sufficient spirituality to render...