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...however, not only Oklahomans but the rest of the U. S. sat up and took notice when it appeared that Oklahoma City schools were odd not only at the top but also at the bottom. Haled before their high school principal for persistent hooky-playing, Milton Walser, 19, and Manford Ishmael, 18, airily explained that they had been busy leading a blackshirt movement to establish a new political and economic system in the U. S. by "bloodless revolution...
...Pauline Manford shifts the gears, steers the lives of all the others. A woman whose day is divided into minute portions, at the same time a member of the Motherhood League and the Birth Control Society, she makes activity an aim in itself...
...Story* is about Pauline Manford, her gaily poised daughter Nona Manford, her tired-lawyer husband Dexter Manford, her easy-going son by a former husband Jim Wyant, and Jim's wife Lita...
Reduced to its lowest terms, the action of the book is provided by Nona's love affair with Stan Heuston and Lita's incipient love affair with Dexter Manford. The rest of the characters are so implicitly concerned in one another's actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists...
...London, Conn., June 10.--J. R. Hoover '24, number two oarsman on the Second University crew, advanced to the same seat in the first eight this morning. The exchange, which sent G. S. Manford '25 to seat two in the junior boat, was made in the morning, remaining unchanged in the afternoon. Coach Stevens expects that, the change will be permanent, but he made no statement as to further shifts...