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...pass on two touching pleas just received. The first is the Seaman's Library asking for unwanted books which might amuse the fog-bound tars. The other is a little chit from the Harvard College Library asking for old cast-offs which might help fill the yawning empty spaces in the stacks and which might amuse the snow-bound graduate students. Instead of having your books sold when you die, why not send them to Widener where they can be disposed of with a nod and a curt "we cannot locate this book now." Unlike the car they...
...heads of his three potent competitors-Goodyear's Litchfield, U. S. Rubber's Davis, Goodrich's Tew. Until last fortnight when Mr. Tew assumed the unpopular rôle, Mr. Firestone almost always took the lead in slashing prices. But so fast flew the chit-chat about their opinions of Mr. Firestone that when Mr. Firestone wrote his stockholders last fortnight that he was cutting not prices but dividends, he declared: "There has been much said, written and portrayed by cartoons to promote the thought that there is a feeling of animosity between myself and the presidents...
...society editor found herself secluded from the guests, at a table on the balcony. Later she declared that she had been served only one course of the dinner. The Times-Star reporter, a Rhodes scholar, left in a huff. Nevertheless all three papers obediently reported only the chit-chat of the event on their society pages next day, mentioned only the title of Sir Frederick's hour-and-a-half address...
Rebuffed by Dr. Maw, the Governor turned to two other Burmese leaders, U. Ba Pe and U Chit Hia, but both declined the role of puppet premier. In London the British Government saved its face temporarily by ignoring the question of Burma, urging the Conference to talk about India, particularly about the renowned inability of India's Hindus. Moslems and Sikhs to agree upon a system for their "communal representation" in the future Indian Parliament under the future Indian Constitution...
...pulling her windowshade up & down. When one fine night a young and beautiful stranger appears with old Mrs. Lindinnock at a sociable, and even calls on him at the manse, Pastor Yestreen's simple soul is nearly swept from its moorings. Miss Julie Logan is a flirtatious chit, but her heart is kind. Parson Yestreen comes as near as nothing to marrying her outright. The fairy story has a sighing end, as a proper Barrie fairy story should...