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...Messieurs, between a pear and some cheese, we have just laid the little cornerstone of a European federation; discreetly, between a pear and some cheese?which doesn't, you know, diminish at all the importance of the event...
Sunlight. When U. S. washers think of Lever Bros., they may perhaps think of how 98% of Hollywood cinemactresses use Lux, or of how Lifebuoy soap removes Body Odor. Some oldtime U. S. washers may think of the oldtime question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap...
...heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were the heads of Theodore Roosevelt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Victor Herbert. Short and pear-shaped were the heads of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Frohman, General Phil Sheridan...
Manhattan's Jimmy Walker has the narrow oval head; Pittsburgh's Andrew Mellon is pronouncedly among the pear-heads...
...point out that sev eral of the signatories have already sharply defined their individual attitudes regarding the agreement's scope and meaning. Great Britain, for example, has issued (TIME, July 30) a very sweeping statement that her right to self-defense includes the right to take whatever measures ap pear necessary in whatever portion of the world British safety may be threatened. Senator Borah said that the Chamberlain note meant nothing at all, inasmuch as it guaranteed to Great Britain nothing that was not already implicit in the treaty...