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...reactionary to the new legislative scheme of the Administration in its process of whipping the depression. For a thirty-hour week at the same hourly wage rate will see the income of the laborer sliced and a further stagnation of business channels. It would be much the wiser and discreet policy for Miss Perkins to fall in line and promote controlled inflation as the proper stimulus for the regeneration of employment...
...architecture from a period when every inn boasted "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence." Even the Greek golden mean could not sober up the great tutor Person. These may be harsh truths, but Harvard can not with impunity appropriate the more outer trappings of Georgian buildings. Every discreet and rebellious panel years to look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown. The Canutes of the south have retired in ignoble confusion. Cambridge...
...operation) a chance of children. Though scandal surrounded her, Biographer Anthony thinks it was baseless rumor. Marie did have expensive tastes, however, and loved cards. The evening before her 21st birthday she played faro continuously for 36 hours. One lover (Biographer Anthony thinks) Marie Antoinette did have: discreet, able Count Axel Fersen, a Swede who served two and one-half years in the U.S. Revolution...
...support herself and invalid child, is about to marry a rich gentleman from Detroit. At the news of this betrothal, an elderly banker, one of the actress's sweethearts, faints dead away. Rallying round, still other of her gentlemen friends prepare to remove the banker to a more discreet resting place, a somewhat shady private hospital on Riverside Drive. There, to the consternation of one & all, it is revealed that the financier died not of heart failure but from poison. If the banker had spent even more time away from home, it may be hinted, he would probably still...
Caged within the ever discreet minds of the three telephone exchange operators on the third floor of Lehman Hall are in all probability many startling though heterogeneous hits of information. Working almost ceaselessly, from 8.30 o'clock in the morning until 5.30 o'clock at night, these efficient, yet human workers keep the academic, social, and clerical wheels of the University steadily turning. In the course of nine hours they handle often well over 2,500 calls. The peak of their work is reached late in the morning, when professors are telephoning home their inability to attend luncheon, when instructors...