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...appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street to impress convening Democrats with his slogan: "Feathers Instead of Bullets." Half-naked Mr. Hockaday next burst into the Washington office of Acting Secretary of War Woodring, where he dumped 40 Ib. of feathers to discourage warfare. When this lively eccentric tried the same thing at the Maryland State American Legion Convention...
Jooss was scarcely out on his own when old-style ballet began to impress him. He admired it for its discipline, its grace. As ballet master at the opera house in Münster he found a sympathetic collaborator in Fritz Cohen, a budding young conductor who was glad to write music for dancing. In Münster the leading dancer was Aino Siimola, a sleek black-haired Esthonian who became Jooss's wife and assistant director...
...spent a year at an eastern school; the edges are rounded off, and he knows just where he's going and why. That's the way most of his classmates impress...
...Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, acting head of the University in President Conant's absence, the note of freedom, so earnestly pounded during the Tercentenary, was once more dinned into the cars of undergraduates. Dean Sperry and Mr. Gummere, although starting from different points, also found themselves trying to impress upon the newest and greenest of Harvard's thousands what this vague term freedom meant to them as students...
...Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping it, had deliberately permitted the sailors to commit a crime and receive a punishment which Dictator Oliveira Salazar trusted last week will impress other Portuguese sympathetic with proletarian Madrid. In Lisbon cafes it was jest-of-the-week to observe: "The Great Powers are so neutral they don't care whether the Spanish Fascists, the Carlists. the Monarchists, or the Moors take Madrid...