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...have a woman's company in the Senate." Said Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond of New Orleans, longtime leader of Louisiana's embattled anti-Long women: "It no longer is an honor to go to the United States Senate. ... It is composed of an aggregation of the cheapest politicians who have neither courage nor honesty." Of her selection to be the third woman Senator in U. S. history,* the new Lady from Louisiana remarked: "That's fine. That's very fine." On the rare occasions when newshawks sought out Mrs. Long during her hus band...
Three Ways- There are three ways to be a collector. Caring nothing about art, one can buy famed rarities at great prices as the cheapest and quickest method of getting a reputation for culture. One can care so much for pictures that one is willing to go without many necessities in order to buy more & more. One can consider one's collection a sort of private investment, to provide artists with a little money to paint more & better pictures. It was perfectly impossible for shy, unassuming Abby Rockefeller to be any kind of a collector but the last...
...guests' appetite for bread & butter. Another saving Her Majesty shrewdly made possible by decreeing that ices should be served only if the afternoon proved extremely hot. Finally, though the Royal Family's own edibles are provided from the kitchens of Chef Cedard, their tea guests are fed by Lyons, cheapest London chain-store caterers...
...profitable city contracts from the Council, who liked him for his frank sensuousness, his Oriental love of color and display, his shrewd business sense. Traveling to Ferrara to see the Duke, Titian would rent a barge and five servants. Going to Ferrara on his own business he used the cheapest cargo boats...
...example, a man's field were Anthropology, his tutor would send him to individual lectures in other department, thus obviating the need for the student's absorbing the welter of material distributed over a whole course. Unhappily, tutoring is the most expensive means of education, and lecturing the cheapest, precluding for the immediate present the prospect of fulfilling so interesting a suggestion. Nonetheless, it should be borne in mind-meanwhile an attempt should be made so to coordinate the two methods as to prevent the possibility of redundancy...