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Up 50 trees along the Avenue one chill evening last week climbed 50 relief workers. Each one was armed with a long pole, a tin can partly filled with pebbles, a promise of six hours work each night at 40? per hr. "If there's anything the starlings hate...
It all started with a most correct, not to say super-aristocratic, country week-end at which there was an unaccountable surfeit of gooseberry desserts and one unaccountably incorrect guest. Poor dear old-fashioned Daisy suspected her daughter Terry of an ineffable sin with one of her oldest friends, and...
When Lloyd George became Prime Minister, in 1916, military plans for the next year had already been mapped out. In spite of the frightful failure of the Somme offensive, they called for further massed attacks on the German Western Front. Lloyd George strenuously opposed the plan, favored a surprise attack...
The lectures are given twice a week by Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin, and while they are by no means brilliant, Professor Sorokin's foreign accent and eccentric idiosyncrasies often make them both absorbing and amusing. The fact that Professor Sorokin appears to be a real scholar also adds interest. To...
His testimony was in sharp contrast to that of Deputy Auditor Thomas Buckley, who was on hand to defend Hurley. To Gill's "hit and run" charge, which came almost at the end of his closing argument, Buckley, stocky, red-faced, jumped up and snarled, "Mr. Hurley has been an...