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...holds herself aloof, unmoved, even when her bridegroom accepts two charming virgins as a wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require the miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely has to resort to flogging. On the eve of a great military campaign, Purta, bored, jealous, at last makes herself attractive to Temugin...
...outlawing war" between his country and the U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg insists that the treaty be a multi-power affair "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." Out of the clash of these two concepts has come a nine-month long game of diplomatic bean bag (TIME, July 4, 1927). Last week M. Aristide Briand sent one more note to Washington from which it appeared that the French position is now, in substance, as follows...
...Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing over a chestnut with Headmaster Alfred E. Stearns of Andover. Young Headmaster Van Santvoord of Hotchkiss doubtless listened with respect to his elders on such subjects as Fourth Form Latin, black-bean soup and the price of automobiles...
Next morning there arrived inopportunely at Vienna famed U. S. negroid danseuse Josephine Baker-in figure like a long string bean, in color a prepossessing tawny chocolate, and in motion either sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours...
...zones of North & South America. Their common possession is abundant food. However there are short peoples (Japanese, Mediterraneans, Central Americans, Fuegians, Malays and southern Asiatics) who have descended from taller stocks and who have an adequate food supply. Because they all live close to the oceans, Professor Robert Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia reasons: "Sea areas and probably sea foods have an influence in reducing the stature by increasing the iodine intake. [The thyroid gland in the neck utilizes the iodine and controls bodily growth.] . . . Looked at in its broadest sense, environment molds the individual, selection retains...