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Well over six feet in height and built to be a wrestler. Professor Merriman lectures in a deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat...
Heat blanketed Henry Street in Manhattan's teeming lower East Side one day last week. Grubby babes clung to their moist mothers, sitting on the front stoops of dingy tenements. Urchins played in the street, shouting, sucking at violently colored and flavored sticks of ice from the pushcarts. All at once they perceived a handsome, golden-haired woman alighting at a red-brick house, No. 265. Some of the moppets ran up to help with her luggage. They had heard that she was coming, knew that she was Miss Hall-Miss Helen Hall -the new Head Worker...
...thought the detectives were bandits and clung to an iron railing!" roared Brigadier General Edward Spears M. P., defending British Subject G. D. Fitzpatrick, a youthful officer in the Royal Air Force. ''The detectives twisted his arm, pulled his tie into a tight knot around his neck and dragged...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...
...Tycoons & Junkers. When worried President von Hindenburg let "Safeguard Minister" Dr. Hugenberg go last week he withdrew support from Germany's most pampered class-his closest friends and neighbors, the East Prussian Junkers (landed proprietors). The Junkers, sunk as a class in debt, have clung to their lands for years through special Government grants of credit and decrees to block foreclosure. Chancellor Hitler appointed as Minister of Agriculture a Nazi famed as "The Friend of the Small Farmer," Herr Walter Darré. As every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany...