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...amphibian was the 45-seater Sikorsky 8-40, abuilding the past 20 months at Bridgeport, Conn, for Pan American Airways Inc. Her four 575-h. p. Hornet motors lifted her off the water after a run of only...
Demurely Mme Litvinov replied: "Why, Lord Cushendun, haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...
...that for an increasing number of undergraduates, the four years of university life are chiefly financial investment; the external acknowledgment, the diploma, in its function of "social background" and "vocational recommendation," is rapidly superseding the education itself in point of importance. Hanging from this punky bough is a whole hornet's nest of educational evils, which include, among the more painful stings, "gut-hopping" and the neglecting of natural talents for more practical pursuits and courses of study...
...Have Not Surrendered!" That anyone should have misinterpreted his words seemed to Mr. Baldwin willful, diabolic. Like a large, well-meaning cow stung by a hornet, he charged into the House H of Commons, defied Mr. Churchill to wrest the party leadership from him, made a great speech, an English speech, a speech to wring tears from honest eyes...
...Mohammedan world (209,020,000 souls) abruptly changed places last week with the Jewish world (15,630,000) in being hornet-mad at the British Government's "perfidious Palestine policy...