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...best index to the character and intelligence of a people. . . . I was greatly impressed with the architectural design of all the school buildings. . . . They are all painted. ... I was further impressed with the lawns, flowers, shrubbery . . . the orderly arrangement of desks and chairs. . . . The furniture was not marred with pencil marks. Placards were placed high on the walls of schoolrooms. Some I noted...
Several dozen Frenchmen decided last week that no stigma of default should attach to them. They would pay their share of the $19.000,000 which La Pa trie did not pay on Dec. 15 to les yanquis. Seizing paper & pencil they divided the 480,000,000-franc default by the population of France, 41,000,000, figured that each owed the U. S. between eleven and twelve francs (about 47?), popped this tidy sum into an envelope and mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their...
...books, and adding in the margins a gloss of irrelevant comments to each passage. The sinners will when their time comes, be required to read the books, following the thought despite the defacement. This done, each sinner will be forced to eat the books, and the lead from the pencil marks will be rendered out of them by eternal fire, such being the efficiency of the Devil, who wastes no lead...
...another battle just outside the Stadium. This time the object of the attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed him, and was only dispersed with the coming of dark...
...price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide leeway for further abuses and delay progress toward permanent recovery" When oil was booming, when wildcat wells were going down by the thousand, when the first great pipelines were still pencil marks on engineers' maps, when promoters were swearing that they would checkerboard the States of Texas and Oklahoma with their leases, when low-laden tankers from Trinidad, Tampico and Maracaibo could not bring the crude in fast enough, you never heard much about...