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...dyed her hair blonde for the occasion. He is a market operator of incredible riches and naïveté who has never taken a drink or run after a woman until a friend makes a friendly bet at a party-it is an old story and the treat-ment is old too, in spite of the settings. Douglas Fairbanks carries it off as nearly in his inimitable manner as he can manage amid the encumbrances of modernity. He swings himself around a good deal on poles and window ledges. His voice, entirely different from his radio tones...
...prison. Leopold was secretary to the prison chaplain at Statesville Penitentiary. He was transferred to the workshop because he had violated regulations concerning the delivery of official prison messages. Loeb was put to work again for an unnamed offense. Twice Leo- pold has been placed in solitary confine ment for cooking in his cell. Other times he has worked in the chair factory. Last summer Leopold & Loeb were viewed in their jail by Libby Holman, famed hot-song singer. She knew "Dicky" Loeb in childhood, at a Michigan summer resort. He recognized her and, not allowed to speak, winked...
...Kippur (Day of Atone-ment), Jewish holiday...
...distracted from his aim by blonde winks and brunette giggles. . . . No Elks' picnic ever reaches Par nassus. The only man who has ever achieved something through the aid of tea parties is Sir Thomas Lipton." Such high-sounding words as Idealism and Service have little to do with Achieve ment, says Pitkin. "A man by the name of William Randolph Hearst built up the largest and most profitable newspaper and magazine business in America. By Ideal ism? By Service? A citizen known as Doheny has built up one of the vastest oil businesses on earth. Has anybody ever found...
...More National Gods. In every war the priesthood has been the govern- ment's greatest aid in exciting warriors to battle. Every Christian nation has averred that God was on its side in conflict. The prelates at Lambeth made a gesture to eradicate this unchristian inconsistency. Said they in effect: Nations should arbitrate their quarrels. If a nation has agreed with other nations to such arbitration (cf. the Kellogg-Briand pact) and then goes to war without attempting to settle a dispute peaceably, then the offending nation's priesthood should not call on God for national help. There...