LETTING THINGS ALONE THE issuing of what might be termed a last will and testament in the evening of life by a writer whose words on first and last things have enjoyed a wide circulation is a...
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WEEK BY WEEK THE assassinations in the Belgrade National Assembly reveal the deep-rooted conflict between the peoples who compose the Jugoslavian kingdom. Events there have been steadily...
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WHERE THE ROAD BEGINS /^OLLEGE is the training ground, the barracks, the ^-* period of emergence of claims to leadership. Life is the campaign. One thinks of the relationship between the two...
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July 4, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 245 THE ELEPHANT SHIVERS By W. C. MURPHY, JR. *{f I "NHE western farmers always raise hell between I elections but they vote Republican in November; they...
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July 4, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 247 ALFRED E. SMITH: FIGHTER AND LEADER By JULIAN HARRIS THE speeches and state papers of Alfred E. Smith have been published under a title which accurately...
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July 4, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 249 THE DAYBREAK OF LIBERTY By GEORGE BARTON MOST of us are familiar with the proceedings in Congress which led up to the adoption of the great charter of our...
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TONE POEM By MARIE GALLAGHER gardenia slowly raised one petal delicately and listened. The very famous Sebastian Nicholas turned and looked at her. "Would you like to dance?" he asked...
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Interlude Into the silence of a broken house You bring your laughter, and your merry singing Startles the shadows, reprimands a mouse, Breaks the long circle of a bat's dark winging. You leave;...
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252 THE COMMONWEAL July 4, 1928 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Beaux' Stratagem GEORGE FARQUHAR wrote in the first decade of the eighteenth century. No matter what bigwigs...
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COMMUNICATIONS BEYOND FREEDOM Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:—In your editorial of June 6, Beyond Freedom, which like a clarion call sounds forth, stirring even the indifferent to rise up...
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BOOKS Saints and Symbols L'Art Chretien: Son Developpement Iconographique des Origines a Nos JourSj par Louis Brehier, Professeur a I'Universite de Clermont. Paris: Librarie...
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