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There is a spell in Japan since olden times, to drive away an unpleasant or tedious visitor. The method of this spell is to stand a broom upside down on a porch, like the picture of Mr. Baker. It is more effective to cover brooms' cheeks with a towel...
...Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
ELIZABETH MAY ROBERTS Glen Olden...
Future applicants will choose from a range of twelve prices, set at thirty-dollar intervals; in olden days there were twenty-one prices at twenty-dollar intervals. The most luxurious suites will be priced at $420, eighty dollars less than at present. So even the most expensive rooms will lie within reach of moderate incomes. Some such system as the three-fee system recently fixed at Yale would be from the point of view of the House-masters still simpler and thus more desirable. But there is too much variance in the quality of the rooms and the paying ability...
...time the survivors had been returned to Britain the death roll had mounted to 83 of the 90 children and 210 of 316 adults, some of them refugees from German concentration camps. Among the dead were Rudolf Olden, onetime anti-Hitler editor of the Berliner Tageblatt; Dr. Gallinsky, new Chargé d'Affaires of the Polish Embassy in Washington; Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, M. P., on a Red Cross mission to Canada...