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...snobbery jolly well right. Year after year we submit to the patronage of a procession of such visitors, turn the other cheek, and apparently yearn for a third, that we might also turn it. "If it takes whole lecture shiploads of Mr. Priestleys to make the long lethargic American worm turn, then I am for whole lecture shiploads of visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another...
...insistent attempts of the daily newspapers to worm out definite statements on this affair have all proved unsuccessful. The papers might, at last, learn that announcements will be made impartially to all members of the press, when the time comes to make them. Importunate pressure and ill-timed gossip of this kind is an embarrassment to all concerned...
...long road and the worm has turned. With youth, discontent is frequently the first step toward progress, and occasionally dissatisfaction has led to some rather original methods of melioration. A young man who has evidently experienced a protracted period of unemployment offered yesterday morning in the advertising section of a New York paper "a chance for an employer". The announcement suggests that a personable young male of twenty-one, enjoying excellent health, and a prepossessing appearance, with an education and a liberal share of gray matter, will consider legibly written offers of less than 500 words from prospective employers...
Jailed, the young would-be assassin successfully defied police efforts to worm a reason out of him. As a matter of course Chief of Police Tsurikichi Maruyama of Tokyo resigned in shame. Had not the bullet been fired in broad daylight in the principal railway station of Tokyo as the Lion was about to board a train...
...until 48 hours after Messrs Whitney and Lindley had bid the President goodnight were persistent newshawks able to worm an admission from the White House that they had been there at all. President Hoover was described as approving the New York Exchange's efforts to curb short selling but unwilling to take any hand in the matter. U. S. officials agreed that the Federal Government lacks authority to deal with short stocks sales on the New York Exchange as it tried to deal with short wheat sales on the Chicago Board of Trade (TIME, Sept...