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...ever heard of the organization known as the "D. A. V's?" This, Mr. Greene, is the body known as The Disabled American Veterans of the World War, which for the greater part is made up of men who really deserve any compensation that a gracious government might bestow on them. Of course, in that group, also, one can find veterans who are not deserving, or even in need of, compensation of any nature...
...bestow such compliments before the performance is not mere idle chatter. The purpose is to indicate what inexhaustible possibilities there are for a large and skillfully trained mixed chorus. For the last fifteen years the Harvard Glee Club under Dr. Davison has made its reputation in this country and in Europe not only as a chorus of high calibre, but as a disseminator of good music. Through the combined efforts of Dr. Davison, Thomas Whitney Surette, and the Concord School of Music, the gospel has successfully been spread until it is now universally accepted. The work of the Glee Club...
Dickens began to write sketches of London life, signed them with the pen-name 'Boz." The sketches were so popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers...
...pension muck is the actually disabled veteran who is often too self-respecting to join the scramble for aid. Pointing indignantly to European pension systems, Authoress Mayo asks: "Did they, too, profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad ten years after the War was over...
...judge from Fascist editorials, Cook Mussolini favors: 1) explicit divorcement of the League Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles (which Il Duce has long held should be revised to appease Germany and bestow on Italy certain territories which she was promised before she entered the War but failed to get at the Peace Conference); 2) expulsion of common nations from the League Council which would become a permanent committee of Great Powers, nebulously "responsible" to the Democratic League Assembly of all states; 3) drastic reduction in League expenditures and personnel on the theory that Geneva has become a hive...