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...John Purroy Mitchel, widow of New York's late Mayor: " It was reported that in Manhattan, at the height of the gaieties of a Russian ball, a toy balloon, playfully 'touched with a lighted cigarette, exploded, set fire to my hair. Major William Kennelly threw a napkin over the blaze, extinguished it. Other guests at my table were Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Miss Aladeleine Liebert, daughter of Gaston Liebert (French Minister in New York)." Patrick Cardinal Hayes: "My first unecclesiastical speech since returning to my archdiocese was delivered to 4,000 postal employes. To them...
...soviet is a name used in society for a napkin. A napkin is used to protect the clothes and after eating to wipe the remains of food from the mouth...
...days ago a student at an American university unwittingly burned a paper napkin on which was a representation of the American flag. A night or so after that he was set upon in his room, taken out and beaten till he lost consciousness. He is supposed now to be recovering in a hospital from the effects of his chastisement...
...Friday evening last and I have read with much interest your editorial of this morning. My experience was, to say the least, most disagreeable, as I was not only struck on the head with a large piece of ice, but was almost blinded by pepper, thrown in a napkin by some cheerful idiot, and which struck me full in the face. I merely mention this, as in you editorial I notice that you omitted to mention "Pepper" as a part of this intellectual exhibition. A. K. ROBKRTS...
...passage: "I come not to destroy but to fulfill." Many men come to Harvard and find that the very things they were taught to respect are scoffed at. It may seem to some that religion had come to an end. One man wraps his religion in the napkin of orthodoxy and will not have it touched or made more effective for fear of losing it entirely, while another flings it away and says: "Harvard destroyed my religion...