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Outdoors, other neighbors scrawled a bilingual sign: "Pas de visiteurs, no visitors," and armed themselves with clubs to keep reporters, photographers and other strangers from disturbing the Dionnes. Dr. Dafoe sent the older five Dionne children, two of whom had developed colds, to live with friends. And Papa Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that...
...skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people. They make me feel uncomfortable. 'La bêtise n'est pas mon fort...
...first period, Harvard went into a huddle and was called to attention by W. J. Leather, vice-captain and 200-lb. forward of the Cambridge fifteen. Huddles are not allowed in rugby. Aside from this foolish faux pas, the Harvard rugby team in New York last week gave a much better account of itself than Cambridge would have been likely to do at U. S. football. When the first 40-min period ended, the score was only 26-to-10 for Cambridge...
...ideal role as last --it seems abased that it was never find before. The firm executives, to be sure, always best him as an old fashioned Yankee type out the emphasis was always placed on the wrong Yankee characteristics. Either he was provoking general merriment by some faus pas of the "Howdly Duchess" varsity or he was being evicted or swindled by some a lick newcomer. In "David Herum," however, he is not only a Yankee type but a smart Yankee. The scene is not Paris or Hollywood; it is where one naturally expects to find a Yankee, a small...
Throughout the whole of Canada, from Halifax to Victoria, from North Portal to The Pas, there are only eleven commercial banks. Canadian banking is branch banking in finest flower. But Canada is unique in that it has no central bank of issue, no Federal Reserve, no bankers' bank. Last week Premier Richard Bedford Bennett prepared to give the Dominion a quasi-public institution modeled after the venerable Bank of England...