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...favour of an all-round reduction of armaments by international agreement...
...Harvard student, about to marry an heiress, were to give up his prospective marriage at graduation in favour of post-graduate work in Bio-Chem, he would be eligible for a nurses training school and presumably for the job of nurse. That is precisely what Loretta Young does in this tale of youth, hospitals, twelve o'clock scandals, overdoses and frequent shots of an oily Florence Nightingale. Boston blue-bloods should take note of John Boles as John Hall, 3rd, and follow his lead with regard to the perfect social marriage by taking a train to Union City, which combines...
...Copeland Reader" and now "The Copeland Translations" fulfill this ideal because they represent the choice of an epicure in literature. The popularity of the earlier volume, among young and old, was heartening to anyone interested in the dissemination of great writing. This supplement in translation should find equal favour...
...industrial committee headed by Mr. Gerard Swope has broken into revolt at last. They announce that they are amenable to government partnership in business, but beg to register a vote in favour of what they call industrial self government. In other words, now that the machinery of regimentation is being set up for the joint control of capital, labour, and the consumer, capital is in favour of it if labour and the consumer are withdrawn from the helm, and the industrialists are left to their own dainty devices...
Yesterday the beer problem was in little doubt; today with the final tabulation of the CRIMSON poll, the last flecks of confusion are dispelled. It is shown that most of the voters are beer drinkers, and that an even greater number favour the introduction of the golden beverage into the dining halls. The answers to the other questions indicate, in general, little beside a coyly wayward tendency to annoy waitresses, and an astounding ability to vanish under the table on slight provocation...