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Inasmuch as Larry Funk and his Band of a Thousand Melodies is in Detroit, Willard Alexander will provide the syncopation for the Lowell House Dance on Friday. Alexander's Band has been playing at the Arcadia in Philadelphia; Jane Whitney will be the vocalist...
Lowell House will indulge in its vernal dancing party on May 10 to the tunes of Larry Funk and his band of a Thousand Melodies. Always in search of piquancy, the Lowell Committee announces that this will be a "Comics Carnival," everyone being urged to appear in the guise of his favorite funny-paper character...
...those commentators on American government who held in their writings that the Supreme Court stood as a legal bulwark against democratic tyranny. Second, those foreign statesmen who recall what American writers and politicians said in connection with the war debts--that if was "morally reprehensible" for sovereign governments to "funk on their contracts." The third class is not really a class, it is just Senator Borah. Will he endeavor to have his legislation, making it impossible for governments that defaulted on their debt contracts to borrow again in the United States, made applicable to the Roosevelt government...
ARTHUR J. FUNK...
...dictionary was the Century (now out of print), which appeared in 1889-91 with six volumes of word histories. It has since been superseded by a two-volume edition (cost: $12). For title of best one-volume laymen's dictionary the U. S. has two first-rate rivals. Funk & Wagnalls' Standard (cost: $16) features new spellings, has had for its editor since 1914 the most famed U. S. lexicographer. Frank Horace Vizetelly, 70. But most U. S. citizens still settle their bets by ''looking it up in Webster...