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This was all very nice; what peeved the Red Cross, however, was that among the serviceable items appeared several cast-off bathing suits and an old pair of crew trunks. The chapter has announced that the water is not fine in Ohio, and warmer clothes would be appreciated...
...Clothes wanted. I am paying fifty per cent higher cash prices than any other dealer for your cast-off clothing. Old Clothes, Watches, Chains, Diamonds, Bric-a-Brac, Furniture, Carpets, etc. Suits, $3 to $20, trousers $1 to $5. Remember Max Keezer...
...situation grew more tense. Dore felt the outcome would be grisly. Principal cause for alarm was the jealousy between Lorenz, cast-off lover of the Baroness, and Philippson. the present incumbent. Sure enough, one day Dore heard a scream. Next time she saw Lorenz he told a cock-&-bull tale of the Baroness and Philippson's hurried departure from the island. Neither of them was seen again. Dore was sure Lorenz had murdered them, burnt their bodies. Then Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses...
Certain facts, however, stand out in bold relief. Last year's Carnegie survey reported the Sociology Department as one of two sub-standard groups in the college. It is the department most likely to receive the sweepings--the undecided, the cast-off from another department, and the seeker of the "snap" field. Since its origin there has been a great increase in the number of concentrators, but there has been hardly more than a gesture made at increasing its allotment of funds. The double action of expansion within and budget rigidity imposed from without has show up grievous flaws...
...never have conquered all China, become a Generalissimo, turned against Communism, put aside his non-Christian first wife, married a delightful Chinese graduate of Wellesley who writes stories & poems for Asia, and himself turned devout Methodist. In Leningrad last week up spoke the Generalissimo's son by his cast-off non-Christian wife, Mr. Chiang Chin-ko, a Chinese now studying hard how to make Revolution. "Mother, I am ashamed before the Chinese people of such a father!" He declared in an open letter in Leningrad's Pravda. "Don't you remember. Mother, how he dragged...