Perilous Polemics
T HERE are some signs that the mutual vilification and insults to which certain newspapers and certain more or less public personalities in this country and America have been......
In View Of Sir Max Bccrbohm's 77th Birthday, Which He
celebrated (or refrained from celebrating) on Wednesday, a News Chronicle reporter bearded him at his Rapallo home to which he returned with a sigh of satisfaction some three......
What, It Is Worth Asking From Time To Time, Is
a Professor ? The Oxford Dictionary answers the question accurately with the defini- tion: "the holder of a chair in a university." Here the positive plainly implies the......
Since Two Different Writers In Two Different Papers Have...
that they have received a communication from Mr. Ronald Chamber- lain, M.P., emphasising the merits of Mr. Ronald Chamberlain, M.P.. as a public speaker, it is difficult to give......
It Will Be An Odd Thing If After Surrey Has
twice beaten Middlesex soundly Middlesex should secure the County Championship and not Surrey ; but of course odd things do happen in cricket. Anyhow, the issue will be open for......
While Endeavouring To Avoid An Excessive Purism I Do Dislike
seeing words given an impossible meaning. Take " oblivious." It means " forgetful (of)" and nothing else—not " unconscious (of)" or "indifferent (to)," or anything of that or......
A Spectator 's Notebook
W HEN staying in Switzerland a wcck or two ago I read with considerable interest an article in a Swiss paper pointing out that the Roman Catholic Church was now by far the......
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