Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fashionable U. S. dinner-table conversations will flourish without alcoholic stimulation if the hopes of Mrs. George Holt Strawbridge, Philadelphia socialite, are realized. Last week she began to form a national committee of First Family Ladies who will keep their guests liquorless to propagate the idea that drinking "simply isn't done...
...continue at Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls). "You needn't congratulate yourselves on your talent," Dr. Fritz tells his protégés. "It isn't any fault of yours." Ronald Joseph has stayed with the Fritz class for six years. He was the first to be given a special section in the Metropolitan. So far his success has not spoiled him. He says: "I have a fifty-fifty chance of doing something good...
...joined the Bureau of Fisheries, he has been Fishman Taylor in most of his waking moments. Once, when showing a friend through a fish plant, he picked up a handful of fish meal (a hash-like, dry composite of ground up heads, tails and other fishy by-products), remarked: "Isn't it beautiful?" And when, last week, Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. announced an offering of new stock, the Taylor Process of fish freezing was prominent among its assets...
...Friars Club, famed Manhattan theatrical sodality. For two years the Friars have allowed women to wait for them in a vestibule significantly nicknamed "the boxing room." Last week the Friars closed all their doors to women; "the boxing room" is no more. Explained Boxer-Friar Corbett: "There isn't any gentleman's club that likes to have ladies dropping in. And who ever heard of ladies in a monastery...
...Isn't there some way whereby assistants can be picked who can do these simple things...