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...being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted on buckwheat cakes saturated with New England maple syrup. "Since Eve was tempted by the serpent with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, never has there been offered to weak and erring humanity such an irresistible temptation as buck wheat cakes and syrup, sweeter than the honey of the Hybla bee. "The seriousness of my charge against the President is accentuated by the fact that the victims...
...Edwin Winterborne, pastor of the Faith Tabernacle at Lebanon, Pa. (TIME, May 19), was forcibly inoculated for diphtheria. Edwin had forbidden his flock to call physicians during an epidemic of the disease; this had resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably...
Fears that swimming from the Weld Boathouse float would be forbidden this spring were dispelled yesterday morning after a conference held in the office of the H. A. A. between Mr. Fred W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., and Mr. W. H. Geer, director of physical education at the University...
...loves to be called plain " Henry" and his beautiful consort is named Elizabeth. Apparently these names were chosen because of Henry's fondness for Henry VIII of England and Elizabeth's admiration for the English Queen of that name. He is supposed to stay inside the Forbidden City and no outsider is supposed to enter therein to disturb the peace of the "Son of Heaven...
...passed when a specimen of the depraved younger generation was always painted with a box of chocolates and an exciting French novel. At any rate, it is quite evident that the present younger generation is far too impatient to seek in the endless pages of a novel those forbidden joys which Thomas Jefferson and his Puritanical contemporaries believed it contained...