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Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewky") is in Norfolk. Beyond officiating at matins and evensong on Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral...
...abandoned themselves to jogging amiably about. But back north again the dancing took on new, hectic energy. Drably uniformed workmen hopped about automatically, rebelliously, before a stock ticker largely labeled. A gasoline filling station, two bathtubs and a ventilator took part in this materialistic orgy. For the finale a bland, fat-faced Mexican sun descended to blot out the noxious stock ticker, a sun whose face bore a flattering likeness to Painter Rivera's. For this triumphant scene the noisy music was at its noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having...
...National Institute of Health makes its toxoid by treating live scarlet fever bacilli with formalin and heat. After standing two months the germs lose their virulence, form with the antitoxin a bland but adequate protection against scarlet fever...
...impressive marble building remindful of No. 23 Wall St., the bland and open citadel of J. P. Morgan & Co. Also bland and open is No. 1, citadel of the Mitsui Gomel Kaisha...
...denial of citizenship to all conscientious objectors to war was recently confirmed when a congressional committee emphatically rejected the proposed Griffin bill, an attempt to put into law the minority opinions of the Supreme Court in the Bland, Schwimmer, and Macintosh cases. The rejection of this bill is a natural consequence of the revival of nationalism which the country is now experiencing. But it reveals a spirit utterly at variance with the principles of American government, and with the best contemporary thought...