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Grave and reverend seniors in their black silk gowns and dainty lace jabots are the 15 judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague, better known as the World Court. It is their privilege to meet in one of the pleasantest, most impressive of courtrooms, the great Peace Palace built by Andrew Carnegie in 1913. To underwrite their deliberations all member nations pay, through the League of Nations, annual sums totaling about $500,000 (each judge's salary is $18,000 a year), and are expected to lay before the court for final settlement their gravest...
...long as the world bought Zion candy bars, Zion cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from...
...Club. This sad error, however, was soon to be transcended. The Kex of the ancient Greeks was not a member of the gymnospermous order Coniferales; it is, rather, a member of the dicotyledonous family, Umbelliferae--a close relative of that charming weed, the Queen Anne's Lace. Ludlorous as this error seems to the botanist, it must be remembered that the Kex Club probably included no botanists in its membership, a fact less surprising than their presence would have been...
Miss Shirley Bagley, the Mason and Hamlin prize winner, played the First Piano Concerto of Beethoven. In a white lace gown with red trimmings Miss Bagley played with clarity and ease and also one eye on Herr Doctor Koussevitzky. It is of course early Beethoven but there is more virile stuff here than the reading of last evening ever allowed us to imagine; after all, it was written in the period of the Pathetique Sonata. And for the Sibelius' Second Symphony the writer has nothing but admiration for this full-blooded expression of lyric and dramatic poetry of music. There...
...determined that on October 8, 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts met and considered things of vast moment. As the day progressed, they awarded five pounds to George Munnerys to compensate for the loss of his eye on a voyage to Block Island. They decreed that no lace be worn and stipulated the penalties for a Breach of this order. After taking care of several matters that are generally handled by police courts at the present time, they apparently had an afterthought. As the last act of the day before closing up the court and going home, the court voted...