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...some kind of gigantic tree. Father Robinson makes several exploratory trips down into the seething jungle below, gradually comes to the conclusion the place is civilized. He loses his family. is annexed by a masterful flapper who makes him into a popular lecturer and a U. S. enthusiast. When he finds his family again, they are running a speakeasy. The story ends in Morleyesque vein with the Robinsons happily settled on Long Island, operating a League of Nations filling station...
...fellow countrymen, well aware of Miss Addams' notable welfare work in Chicago (President Gerard Swope of General Electric, ex-Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada have worked at Hull House) are not accustomed to thinking of her as internationally-minded. But she has long been an enthusiast for the World Court and League of Nations. She refused to take any part in War work, was a pilgrim on Henry Ford's "Peace Ship." When she won the Pictorial Review's $5,000 award this year, her interest in world peace was mentioned, as well as Hull...
...University squad can practice and play away from home with a certain amount of facility, but the Boston Garden would obviously be neither available, nor possible for House teams. The rinks on Soldiers Field have been too poorly kept up to assure any regular use. Otherwise the hockey enthusiast has had to make the most of the poor and not too frequent ice of the Charles. If the inter-House sports are to be successful some better facilities must be made possible...
...Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) with his Fables in Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known as Purdue's patron saint...
Ruth Slenczynski, 6-year-old pianist from Sacramento, fairly astounded sophisticated Berlin with her playing of a difficult classical program. At the end of the concert one enthusiast tried to give her a doll over the footlights but Polish Father Slenczynski objected, rushed forward, seized the doll, hurled it back into the audience...