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...think of embodying so hefty a theme in a book which in patches is light to the point of ribaldry. It is cheeky to call such a book a "white paper." But these days Washington is a breezy hub of the world, where cuss words, flippancy and wisecracks distinguish the august and the great. The Secretary of State lisps, and therefore says "Jesus Kwyst!," report Davis & Lindley, whose admiration for Cordell Hull's profanity and cracker-box yarns about mules, shirttails and barnyard fowl is right in the Washington groove...
...knows the working end of a drumstick and can distinguish the business side of a field drum will get a rousing welcome when he turns out for the Friday afternoon marching workouts in Soldiers Field. These offer major athletic credit...
...special blackout street lamp has been announced by General Electric. It is made of plastics and cast iron, with no glass, hence is fairly immune to shrapnel. The lamp is 9 candle power, gives one-sixtieth the illumination of full moonlight, i.e., barely enough to distinguish a pedestrian at 40 feet...
...Ph.D.s had been virtually disgraced (but Bing Crosby got an honorary Ph.D. from his Alma Mater, Washington's Gonzaga University, in 1937). Today the usual honorary degrees are LL.D. (Doctor of Laws), Litt.D. (Letters), Sc.D. (Science), D.D. (Divinity). But Investigator Epler found that most people could not distinguish these from earned doctorates. Most frequent earned degrees corresponding to the honorary ones: Ph.D. (given in various fields), J.D. or J.S.D. (Doctor of Law or the Science of Jurisprudence), Sc.D. (Doctor of Science), Th.D. (Doctor of Theology...
...itself. Franz Werfel builds up a compassionate and ludicrous picture of how state, science and the Church handled this strange wild beast against which no weapons had been invented. Scientists trembled in scorn and terror at the challenge to their royalty over the century. The Church, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth, fraud and demonism, had also its own safe-playing dread of scientists and statesmen to contend with. The Church most scrupulously anatomized Bernadette's miraculous possibilities, but was also most bewildered how to handle her. She was funneled off into the untouchable silence of a convent, where...