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...cloud an issue already difficult for youthful comprehension, Mr. Donal M. Sullivan, the Senior Class orator, brought an aggressive faith to bear on the recuperative powers of the party system. The emotional appeal of his bitter reference to the generation which had taught his own to "worship the golden calf" was well calculated to stir interest in his constructive program. But although he went further than Governor Cross, Mr. Sullivan, too, preferred not to look behind the cars of today's order...
...bicarbonate of soda, they will bear only sons. A lactic acid diet produces only girls. Dr. Unterberger verified his theory with 78 daughter-surfeited German women. All but one bore sons. The exception had broken her alkaline régime. Six cows fed lactic acid each produced a female calf...
...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...
...worse team could have been chosen. Mr. Montagu Norman [today Governor of the Bank of England], is the high priest of the golden calf [i. e. the Gold Standard] and his main preoccupation was to keep his idol burnished and supreme in the pantheon of commerce. In his honest view it was the only god to lead the nation out of the wilderness. Such a person was a dangerous counsellor for a man of Mr. Baldwin's equipment...
...appearance on Broadway in The Whole Town's Talking. Afterward she went to Hollywood, played opposite John Gilbert in His Glorious Night, with Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song, with Levis Stone in Strictly Unconventional. She announces as the reason for turning her back on the Golden Calf of Hollywood a need to "help her technique." Miss Owen is not alone among oldtime film folk, some definitely shelved by film producers, who have gone to Broadway this year to help their techniques and, as Baseball Manager "Gabby" Street would say, for the profit, too. Some of the renegades have...