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...Saltonstalf, Harvard Law School graduate, has had many years of experience in public life in this state. Practicing law in Boston, he was for a short time assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, a member of the Newton Board of Aldermen, and from 1923 until the end of last year he served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
...make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching...
...turns are even less threatening. The only distinguishing feature is the pleasure, If such it be, of exposing all the most valued parts of the anatomy to fracture and contusion, subject to the whim, not of some human opponent, as in the great game of football, but of Newton's three laws. There is a savage pleasure in kicking the opposing tackle in the face, but one can only metaphorically spit in the eye of the law of gravity...
...Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly...
...ever since Christmas, she has been missing, and the Yard Cops are broken-hearted. Once she went off before, and when all hope for her recovery had been abandoned, she was discovered by the Newton Police, who obligingly returned her to the University...