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...deafness. Some children are born deaf and dumb. Others seem to have a "nervous deafness." Dr. Emil Amberg of Detroit noted that this "nervous deafness" is "in the upper ranks of society much more frequently in females than in males. The subjects of it are generally of a sallow complexion, of a phlegmatic disposition, with a thin, cold skin and languid circulation...
...Lindman cabinet was conservative in complexion. It had been in office since October, 1928. but recently was bereft of a working majority in both Riksdag chambers...
...view of the very earnest interest in the prohibition question prevalent among all sorts of conditions of persons, it is reasonable to assume that the complexion of the straw vote in fourteen leading American colleges and universities, conducted recently by the Harvard Crimson, is an honest reflection of the actual sentiment and conduct among attendants at those institutions of learning. With approximately half the student body in Ann Arbor ousting ballots, the expression there is distinctly emphatic and decisive and indicates, among other things, that anti-prohibition feeling in the State is not confined to big olties...
...have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has." Author Ferber, unmarried, 42, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., of Jewish parents, now lives in Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying to write better than I can." Other books: Buttered Side Down, Roast Beef Medium, Personality Plus, Emma McChesney...
Jammed to suffocation last week was the Union's rather dingy hall, as there rose to make his maiden speech, a youth (18 years) of pink and white complexion, a nervous but determined fledgling, Randolph Churchill...