Word: alumna
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...bribe her as you did, Master Fascist. You should not have professed a belief in America's ideals, in American etiquette, and then so grossly broken them by making your bribe public, by giving your letter to the press before it reached President Conant. Was this consistent with sincere, alumna generosity? Isn't it just a bit too obvious? Certainly, Herr Hanfstaengl, for one who represents the wiles of European diplomacy, your methods are remarkably crude. Can Harvard accept your offer under all these conditions? If it does, it will be an eye-opener to more than one trusting American...
Midnight Mary (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another sample of Hollywood's current investigation of the beneficent effect of penal institutions on their adolescent inmates. Mary (Loretta Young), like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she has a law-abiding nature. When aiding her accomplice Leo (Ricardo Cortez) to rob a cabaret, she saved a handsome young patrician named Tom Mannering Jr. (Franchot Tone) from being murdered. He rewards her with a job in his law office. She is already affianced to her employer when sent...
...longer considered disgraceful for famed "singers to swell their incomes by singing in cinemansions. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer sang last week at Roxy's where Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, another Metropolitan Opera alumna, has sung several times. Soprano Frances Alda, a mound of red velvet and jewels, last week did a turn at the Palace, Manhattan vaudeville house...
...same time." Up to last week all Wellesley visitants continued to report that First Lady Mei-ling pours tea in a Chinese gown of finest silk, wears shoes of Wellesley (not Chinese) cut, speaks English with a Boston accent, affects plenteous diamond & platinum rings, priceless jade earrings. When an alumna exclaims, "What a beautiful old vase!" Mme Chiang is apt to reply gracefully, "Yes, quite old. But that white jade one there is older, 800 years...
...Wonderful!" Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh is a Smith alumna. Few such have teaed with First Lady Meiling. But for Anne & Charles Lindbergh the First Lady staged a very special tea last week at which President Chiang managed to be present...