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...probity of the defendants. But few talesmen had read about the case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...
...neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women some escape from the sex-consciousness forced upon them by deans, pastors and mothers; the logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time and again this book comes alarmingly near to telling just what that divine peril, youth's glamor, actually...
Sirs: In your July 26 number, you refer to Mrs. Ferguson as "Governess." Mr. Webster says: "governess-a lady who trains and instructs children, or an instructress." He makes no reference to a lady charged with the duties of a governor. Neither does the constitution of any state provide for the office of "Governess." SAM B. MANES...
...Press reports told that Mrs. Coolidge was taking swimming and diving 'lessons of Miss Mary Hernan in an ocean pool at White Court. An article appeared under Instructress Hernan's name in the Hearst Press: I met Mrs. Coolidge at Washington last winter and when I came to Swampscott this summer I met her again at the swimming pool at Little's Point, a private pool owned by the residents of that section of Swampscott. Only ten families are privileged to see Mrs. Coolidge while she is bathing...
Says the Advertiser: "In Professor Childs' work on the "English and Scottish Ballads," Harvard College has added another to the long list of scholarly productions which show her to be a living literary centre, as well as an instructress, creating new thought as well as imparting...