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...there anything dull or docile about Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Set to nose out the labyrinthine political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women...
...British press variously described the trial as "a blow to liberty" (Laborite Daily Herald) and "a victory for civilization" (Conservative Morning Post). Between these two extremes, the Westminster Gazette took occasion to lament that a whiff of politics was undoubtedly apparent to squeamish noses at the trial, and quoted: "It is not enough that justice should be done-it must appear to be justice...
...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...
...Lamont '16 has given us a very pretty little thumb nail sketch of Japanese scenes in "Nikko, the Beautiful." There is a fragrant freshness in that two-page description, something of oriental color which fairly gives us a whiff of the distinctive odor of the bambo. Immediately one is reminded of Lafcadio Hearn. It is a pity that Mr. Lamont did not build his description about one of those many fascinating plots that claim Japan as their birthplace...
...whiff from the west comes to us by way of contrast in Mr. Jackson's "Crossed Wires." The plot is worked out with considerable ingenuity. The plains lingo seems natural, and if the tale proceeds along well recognized cowboy lines--it is a cowboy story...