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Sympathy for individuals with special grievances ought not to sweep the Council off a firm footing. Though the latest investigation pops gently in cars tuned to cannon-like reports on Tutoring Schools and House Athletics, it shows now alive the body is to the troubles of the undergraduates. The same energy could well be hitched to heavier wagons than language probation...
...Iron Duke", of which the only thing that can be said is that Arliss is Arliss, and a poorer one than usual. His usually quizzical expression is frozen into a leering grimace and glassy stare by the awful grandeur of Waterloo. Platitudes fall more thickly than the cannon-balls, and the attempts at humour miss their mark as widely as do the French gunners. Not even the Tsar of Russia, the King of Prussia and the King of France can save this bit of historical mummery from utter deadliness. But even this shouldn't keep anyone away from "Liebelei...
...Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop the memoria issue because the military career of General Sherman "is a history of rapine, carnage, destruction and murder waged principally against...
...struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
...standard of living has declined and there is chronic shortage of individual food items under Goring's Rearmament program of "Cannon instead of Butter." There are "Strength Through Joy" vacation treats and trips for workers on a grand scale which would have seemed incredible four years ago. In Germany the Protestants, Catholics and every other religious group except the Nazi mystics have been ruthlessly trampled by the State and the Jews have been legally reduced to a sub-citizen depressed class...