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...KLEEK-Elinor Mordaunt-Day ($2.50). Story of a South Sea "madam," by the author of Gin & Bitters...
...Madam, a peerade is the spontaneous awareness of comradeship and romance which comes over a college several times in the fall and many times during the spring and the activities which demonstrate faith in these illusions...
...keep house. When Amy Norton begins to feel that her marriage with Geoffrey is an experience outworn, that they are both becoming drugs on each other's market, she leaves New York, runs back home to Midwestern Flemington. Here, headed by old Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with fun. Like a small swarm of bees they cluster about Madam, with her silver-headed cane and common sense, as around a queen more fertile than they of purpose and strength. When Tom gets the servant girl in trouble he turns...
...first thing in the morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder work than young ones, are graded more severely. In the beginning, concentrators peruse or hear read for three minutes a single paragraph, such as one dealing with the palindrome ("Madam, I'm Adam"). Then for seven minutes they mull over questions based on the paragraph, while their teachers endeavor to muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry...
President Hoover: Not at all, Madam. Your...