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...motors roared; Fijians retreated, howling with fear and regret. Into their lives had come something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
Even a great Correspondent must begin by taking his bearings. Therefore the first column and a half cabled by Mr. James was a bright, bedtimish story about Italia Bella, no longer famed lioness with which Il Duce was once wont to pose and gambol publicly (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). Moral of the tale: Signer Mussolini is now so unshakably in power that he no longer needs to bolster up the legend of his invincibility by posing in a lion's cage...
...mustn't forget to get a mailing card. I wish I had another cup of coffee. Be calm, be calm. 586 B. C. While Jeremiah wont down into Egypt Cain and Abel were carried captive to Babylon, no it was Ezokiel. Ezekiel saw de wheel, catharsis, children cry for it; he won't ask that anyway...
...only true church of Christ" and submit to papal government and authority, one is tempted to say that in the light of past papal pronouncements it is exactly what was to be expected. One wonders, however, what those Roman Catholic students of church history who have been wont to invoke Cardinal Newman's doctrine of development in justification of the many and great changes which the centuries have made in the dogmas and practices of their church think of the papal statement that the Roman is the only church which, "by the will of its founder, must always remain just...
...game. But to the Harvard graduate of the Middle West it will offer the rare opportunity of seeing his team in action, and for the undergraduate body of Harvard as a whole it is likely to furnish a justification in the eyes of mid-Western critics who are wont to scoff at Harvard's athletic degeneracy and lack of manly qualities...