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...fleet of North American Rotarians it was announced that radio communication?or "contact," as Rotarians say?would be continuous between ships all the way across the ocean so that the junket-ers could exchange messages and keep tabs on what all were doing. All six ships had their entertainment committees, to think up daily "programs" such as Rotarians enjoy at home only once per week. Each ship was laden with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful...
...whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most of all important to publishers...
...teachers and school superintendents constitute the membership of the National Education Association. There is an annual meeting in July, when a goodly portion of them swarm into the biggest hall of the city lucky enough to have been named "convention city" the year before. It is a great vacation junket as well as a grave pedagogical palaver, a great time of speechmaking, report-reading, handshaking and theorizing...
CHIMNEY CORNER STORIES-Veronica S. Hutchinson-Minton, Balch ($2.50). Sixteen well wrought little tales retold to suit those who still delight in beef juice and junket. Cleverly illustrated...
...great junket. Breakfasting at their hotel, the Washington delegates sang over their shredded wheat, war-whooped between eggs and coffee. The Hawaiians wore festive yellow lei and broad smiles. There were delegates from Alaska, and even from the South Seas, for whom the whole week was one long holiday...