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...that the Hanover undergraduates know who is most likely to succeed in life, what man's tailor to patronize, and whose brow in truth is the highest they can hurry back to the normalcy their self-imposed psychoanalysis interrupted. For this introspection should prove the sole lapse in the life of an otherwise healthy New Hampshire extravert. Remembering to respect the local chief of police, to elect Biblical History next semester, and to shun the study of physics like poison, Dartmouth men can get back to their favorite topic, women, women, women. When it is recalled...
...Brow-wrinkling in Florida, Herbert Hoover last week sought a realistic answer to the Republican party's most headachy riddle: How can the G. O. P.'s gains in the South be consolidated and permanently retained...
Sudden pains came, and the Queen Mother tossed restlessly. Midnight tolled. Maria Christina grew pale, livid, and drops of sweat stood on her brow. She had been stricken with angina pectoris?paroxysms of the heart. Hot applications slightly eased the paroxysms, but before a priest arrived, at 2 a. m., the Queen Mother was unconscious. Last rites were administered, though Maria Christina knew it not, and she died...
General Dalton, second-highest-paid executive official,* will join a private shipping enterprise. Since 1926 he has directed the Government's fleet of 250 vessels. He rose from an Army private to Assistant Quarter-Master-General in charge of transportation. A year ago the Dalton brow darkened unhappily when a Fleet Corporation reorganization clipped his authority. Now the prospect of the sale of the Government's ships, with the consequent evaporation of his good job, was doubtless what tempted him to desert the Coolidge barkentine...
...babe in India. Presently the Goddess of Destiny was invited to enter the birth chamber and inscribe upon the forehead of the newborn child its fate. When a decent interval had elapsed, Pundit Karandikar went in to see what had happened, and clearly beheld upon the infant's brow these prophecies, or rather ordinations of the Goddess: 1.) "She will be an artistic genius, witty and intellectual." 2.) "She will marry a noble and wealthy Hindu...