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Perhaps I may make so bold as to content that it is just as natural and normal not to smoke as to smoke, and if so, then is not the non-smoker entitled to read without being annoyed by fumes of strong tobacco, especially on a damp day, with all the windows closed...
Parliament reconvened in somber mood last week after a five-week recess. A dark, lowering sky turned afternoon into night, and a damp mist crept into the House of Commons. M.P.s had plenty to worry about-a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy. But one urgent question overshadowed the others...
Then came the war; she sang only four times, twice in Sweden, twice in Switzerland. Since then, European and U.S. audiences have heard her more often, found her voice still full of a rich, earth-mother quality that no other living soprano possesses. This week, as a damp-eyed Met audience gave greying Kirsten Flagstad a long ovation, she was back on the stage she calls "my operatic home...
Boot Spur cabin was built in 1938 by students with the help of an old trapper. Members claim the cabin's bedding facilities will house 24, but add that more can sleep on the somewhat damp ground floor. Since the U. S. Forestry Service requires the door to be always unlocked, many college groups use Boot Spur cabin. The H.M.C., however, asks each visitor to contribute 25 cents to the "kitty...
...needs to learn how to hold his liquor," the master of Silliman College, Theodore M. Greene, said, "he might as well o it under home conditions. There's no use forcing him to go to a West Haven bar ... they've got to go awfully wild before I'll damp them." When damping is necessary, it usually takes the form of discreet removal from the scene of trouble and then gentle counsel--on first offense. If the wicked fail to learn, the Masters may ask them to resign from the College, or at worst, suspend or expel from the College...