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...what about Prohibition? [Here Mr. Smith took an ostentatious stoup of water while his audience whooped.] null actually spending $100,000,000 a year in a senseless, useless, fruitier attempt to enforce an unenforceable statute. Who says that? Why. the Wickersham Commission! [Loud laughter.] Think of the billions...
...sedate Journal of the National Education Association. Mrs. Lillian Gray, assistant supervisor of State Teachers College at Santa Barbara, Calif., had called together her teachers and posed the question: How can a teacher improve her personal appearance? Upon their replies she based an outline for the Journal. null to demonstrate what a chic abecedarian looks like, Mrs. Gray donned a smart brown ensemble, smiled gaily, pointed a trim toe and posed for a picture looking much like bridge-playing Mrs. Ely Culbertson (see cut). Mrs. Gray's pointers for well-dressed teachers...
...Bobby Jones twice as many votes as his nearest rival. This year the balloting was closer. Out of the panel of ten, selected from 100 nominees, Pennsylvania's bulky, bristle-haired Barney Berlinger finally won by two votes, 424 for him to 422 for sleek little Helene Madison, null swimming champion. who had 70 votes more than Helen Wills Moody...
...Last week near Los Angeles gypsy royalty made more news. Several months ago, swart Mark Adams, who has a little farm in the San Fernando Valley and rules the valley's gypsies with a firm brown hand, was crowned "King of all the Gypsies in the null Last week, from far & near, a horde of Pharaoh's People gathered outside Los Angeles to pay King Mark due homage. Peddlers, phrenologists, fortune-tellers and silversmiths convened to eat succulent barbecued steer, to dance and to drink as much wine as they could hold. One who did himself particularly well...
...been to the commissioner's office and also 'uptown' [14th Street] twice. Mr. Hickin insisted he had been told 'uptown' that 'everything was O. K.' " By "uptown" and "14th Street" the N. G. L. lawyer said he meant Tammany Hall, whose null was then on 14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place. He further declared that he considered N. G. L. comparatively lucky, that he had feared "a further squeeze" of $250,000. He added that North German Lloyd berthed her ships all over the world but "never has to hire lawyers...