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...mistake (except perhaps in refusing his protest of Saturday) he took stock of his equipment to see if he was fitted out for an Amazonian expedition. He was. There were thirty-one heads on board in case head-hunters were encountered; there was a bolt of bright blue gingham for exchange purposes, and, best of all, a mandolin player who could soothe the savage breast if the savage breast got savage...
Walls and tables were choked with silver rings, pewter ash trays, fashion sketches, electrical equipment, straw hats, parchment lamp shades, gingham dresses. Demonstration classes in French, stenography, music appreciation, beauty culture, etiquette and Budgeting the Family Income chattered and squirmed in the centre of each floor. Behind exhibits and pupils lay the stories of some 75,000 men and wo- men stranded by Depression and floated off poverty, despair or boredom by a movement which has become one of the most significant phenomena of the past decade...
...Brother Isaiah, 90. Authorities did not discover it until last week. Squatted around his corpse, praying without cease, his 40 "Immortals" waited his resurrection. Authorities looked at the body, decided it had better be buried while there was something still left to bury. Next day in overalls and gingham the "Immortals," who support themselves by farming, chanted a requiem as Brother Isaiah was lowered into the earth. He lay in a plain pine box, his head pointed toward the north, his long, white whiskers flowing over his long, white robe. His followers plowed and harrowed the earth above him, went...
...these fast city girls may set for her boy, comes posthaste to save him from this awful fate. Yanked rather precipitately from the arms of Miss Velez and ignominiously knocked out in his next fight, our hero decides to return to the farm and marry Mary Carlisle and six gingham dresses...
...gifts every year. Only entrance requirement for the Berry Schools is that one be too poor to go elsewhere. Bartering learning for tobacco, oxen, eggs was known to Miss Berry long before U. S. colleges took it up during the past two years. Wearing overalls and gingham dresses, all Berry students must work two days a week. Simple, combining hand with mind, are the Berry courses-liberal arts, science, commerce, mechanics, agriculture. There are nearly 10,000 alumni. White-haired and maternal at 66, Miss Berry has been given the $5,000 Pictorial Review Achievement Award, the Roosevelt Memorial Association...