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...small boy whose father has recently died becomes the man of the family by getting a job behind a soda-fountain, shows his mother that he, and no stepfather, will fill his father's shoes...
...Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated "Freedom of the Press Room." Sponsors of the idea expressed the hope that newspapermen from all the land would make annual "pious" pilgrimages to the home "to refresh our spirit in the fountain of freedom...
...French Academician Paul Valery, German Nobleman Thomas Mann, Italy's Ugo Ojetti, Norway's Nina Roll-Anker. Professor Gilbert Murray (Oxford English Dictionary) was there in his capacity as President of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. The delegates spent most of their time rushing about with fountain pens in their hands autographing each others' books and sign ing group photographs, but they did pass resolutions asking for more broadcasting of poetry, suggested that the donors of poetry prizes give supplementary prizes for elocution in poetry. Neither were they too busy to recognize and honor the Widow...
What, if you please, is the drink commonly termed "the lead shot"? In my rather brief sojourn of two years here, I have yet to drink this "fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain." Yet I frequent the soda fountains of Exeter with much regularity. But, being rather sceptical by nature and decidedly curious and feeling that my reputation as a soda fountain connoisseur was at stake, I made rather extensive inquiries, but regret to say that my search was unrewarded, for every storekeeper and proprietor in Exeter answered my demand for Exeter...
...School has its drink (the 'lead shot': a fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain)." I am sorry to say that this drink seems to have gone the way of all popular drinks: here today and gone tomorrow. I have been in Exeter for several years, and I have as yet to meet such a drink, though I have met many fearful ones. For example: Welch grape juice in a milk shake, thus making their advertised "Purple...