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Every Summer School has its famous characters. Among the most outstanding features in feminine reflections at the Union we find a stalwart youth with ebony mane popularly known as the Answer to a Maiden's Prayer. But the most vigorous attention and well-meaning conjecturers have produced no real results. Our unnoticing hero has formed no feminine attachment to allay the disquieting fears of our fascinated schoolmarms, and we are beginning to question whether there really existed a maiden's prayer, or whether the answer was short circuited. Here at least is a case where wire-tapping would...
...green, yellow, red) been dug up to deck the Mayflower Hotel, the Ethiopian national anthem orchestrated for the reception by the Army band at the Union Station. The bowlegged little Prince with curly whiskers first called at the White House wearing a two-foot shako of lion's mane. A large crowd awaiting General Italo Balbo cheered him by mistake. Day later, wearing a pith helmet, he returned to lunch with the President. His soft Amharic had to be interpreted. In the Blue Room before the meal he flipped open a box and drew forth as royal presents...
...Religion! "In our first or very general circle," began leonine Paul-Boncour, stroking his handsome mane, "it is simply a question-to use almost textually the expressions which on two occasions the American Secretary of State has used-of considering that since by common accord all civilized nations have outlawed war any nation making war now can no longer continue to profit by the legal rights of belligerents. "War being outlawed, it is logical that he who wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world...
Four days before election Newton Diehl Baker has his most important date of the campaign, at Montclair, N. J.* Beside the onetime Secretary of War on the platform is to sit a man with a shaggy white mane who is running for Freeholder of Essex County.† After Mr. Baker has warmed himself up on the Roosevelt-Garner ticket, he is to unleash all his eloquence as a partisan advocate in behalf of this local candidate, who happens to be his older brother Frank...
...little room in Queens, New York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...