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...Some teachers are uncritical themselves . . . lack high standards of dress." (Let them read style magazines, take special courses, gaze into mirrors...
...Totals. New England, centre of banking excitement last week, was not the only section of the country where rich and poor stood mutely to gaze at closed banking portals. The year, a disastrous one to the banking structure, has been marked by two types of troubles. There have been the major financial disturbances which have suddenly overcome great financial centres. There has been the steady stream of isolated failures. Last week this stream continued, much less torrential than during late summer, but still muddy. The week's tally of bank closings (suspensions and failures and voluntary liquidations) as kept...
...bless the alterations of the Basilica had come Most Rev. Pascual Diaz, plump, jolly, Indian-blooded Archbishop of Mexico; Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Apostolic Delegate to Mexico; ten bishops and the entire clergy of Mexico City. Tourists warned by all-wise Guide Terry brought binoculars to gaze at the til ma above the high altar. After High Mass there began a solemn procession through the Basilica.* At its head was the Sacred Golden Crown, covered with brilliants, emeralds, rubies and turquoises. Suddenly, just before it was to be hoisted in place above the Virgin's portrait, sharp-eyed...
...Beta Kappa meeting Mr. Paul Shorey tried modern culture and found it dull. Americans are sexually inept, poets are crude, intellectually the country is dead. As a solace from this tedious period Mr. Shorey looked not to a refreshing dawn in the future, but preferred to gaze longingly at the roseate sunset of a halycon past. Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, and Emerson are the foundations of American culture the men to whom their countrymen must point with pride...
...Constitution when that famed old frigate tied up at Washington Navy Yard. He went poking down into her bilge where officers had to use flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...