Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster Common Room) with only a small coal fire for heat. It is no wonder that I'm wrapped up in an automobile blanket and an umbrella over my left shoulder. No, there's not a leak (I' m not on the top floor) but there is a penetrating draft which comes first from the left and then from my back and overhead; so by a simple shift of the umbrella from my left to a verticle position and vice versa, as the wind changes, the trick is done. This little feat was suggested to me by a young Rhodes...
...Cincinnati Temple named for the founder of U. S. Reform, Isaac Mayer Wise, Lawyer Goldman has devoted his career to Reform of another kind. An authority on proportional representation, he did much backstage work in the Charter movement which ousted Cincinnati's machine government in 1925, helped draft the city charter which was subsequently adopted. When not busy with Judaism and civic betterment, Lawyer Goldman golfs, delves into Ohio history...
...nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. "Yellow fever." observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. "has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions. It would probably be the greatest disaster in the history of the world...
Such last week were the miscellaneous harbingers of a new Congress, but there were others more specific. Representative Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, hulking ex-newshawk who three months ago sent the Clerk of the House the draft of a bill with the request that it be the session's Bill No. -an honor which Wright Patman of Texas won at the last two sessions for his Bonus Bill-got it back all neatly printed. Before a battery of cameramen he marched up and dropped it in the hopper (see cut). It was free publicity for a pet project...
...learning, but frequently behave in ways which do not redound to their own benefit. "Cows," she continued, "catch on to things quicker, remember better. And strangely enough the cows that give the most milk are the smartest of all cows. But polo ponies make the same mistakes that draft horses do. And sheep, despite their timidity, can be taught tricks, such as taking a handkerchief out of your pocket, rolling a barrel, and shaking hands, just as easily as a horse...