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...Story. Monsieur Ripois rid himself of his palling mistress quite as simply as she would have shed her soiled blue wrapper. He yawned at her solicitude, snapped at her tenderness, sneered at her complaints, assumed high dudgeon when her desperation became vindictive. His sooty little conscience glowing at her quick repentance, out he marched, free to take a new lodging, walk the London streets after work and supper, fondle his mustache, boldly scrutinize passing women and wait, thinking himself a very audacious chap of the world indeed, for further chances to cheat life of amorous adventures where the women gave...
...Fake. Frederick Lonsdale is known locally for neat and witty social comedy (Spring Cleaning; Aren't We All?); A. H. Woods for bedrooms; and Godfrey Tearle because he is brother, to Conway, famd cinema actor. Together these three have rolled up a murder in a plain wrapper and presented it to the public. When the wrappings were ripped off the opening night, the public gratitude was only soso...
...generally serves but as a background for a subtle parable. Subtlety and power are indeed more evident in these few verses than in most of the modern American poetry we have read. Coming back once more to our friend who writes in red ink on the wrapper, we can supplement his generalities with particulars. For in many of his lines Mr. Wolf strikes chords strangely similar to those touched by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sarah Teasdale. But always he is masculine as we might expect of one who in a short but varied career has been at different times...
...material is offered than that contained in the current newspapers and periodicals, in government and other reports, and in publications of the day which are a matter of public knowledge. Of these the book may afford a fairly useful summary, but it does not fulfill the promise on the wrapper of making sensational disclosures. He does, to be sure, bring out the fact that Lenin and Trotsky offered to reject the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and renew the war against Germany, and offer which, for as yet unexplained motives, was not taken up by the Allies; but this is hardly...
...under commercial influences, it is perfunctory at best, and usually unreliable. A prominent professor, who has won increasing prominence as a critic, seems to act on the principle that indiscriminate praise is a safe pass-key for his reviews; consequently, his authority is quoted on the wrapper of every other new volume, and a collection of these dicta would supply a vocabulary of superlatives...