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...There are small Sin-Boards. 6x9 in., for use during sermons, and cardboard sheets 40 x 48 in., which sell for $1. Some sins and peccadillos on Preacher Young's list: Adultery Hypocrisy Agnosticism Inferiority Complex Aping the World Miserliness Being a Lone Wolf Murder Class Distinction Road Hog Dispositional Temper Sabbath Desecration Waste of Others'Time Waste of One's Time Drinking Gambling Time
...kissed by Latin Ambassadors. The city's social news is reported in the manner of a court gazette. The President, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Senate, sometimes of the House of Representatives, get top-column position. The meticulous Star's Mrs. Sally Pickett goes the whole hog, prints an entire column of names of guests (down to the assistant solicitor of the Department of Labor) at a tea given by the Minister of the Dominican Republic. The Post's society editor is the most authoritative. She is blonde Evelyn Peyton Gordon, daughter of the judge...
...Haven and Brookline both held the same ranks last year (TIME, May 2). Twelve cities of last year's list have been dropped from the honor roll either because economies have hog-tied their health officers or because other communities have intensified their health activities and sur passed the failures. The twelve dropped cities are: Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Utica, N. Y., Harrisburg, Pa., Kenosha and Racine, Wis., Alhambra, Calif., Maplewood, Orange and West Orange, N. J., Monrovia, Calif...
...studio in Hollywood contained the third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction was the gibbon (Amos), who is accustomed to camera work. Most intractable was a supercilious warthog. In one scene a woman visitor complains about the smell of the animals. The wart-hog gives her a derisive sniff. Director Lee produced the proper expression by offering the wart-hog a carrot, substituting a piece of raw beef to make him disgusted...
...setup. Education must be entirely national or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial security with doubled political control and meddling. Under the proposed evolution Mr. Roosevelt must go the "whole hog" or the Chicago teacheres will be pacified to the definite detriment of the secondary school system...