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Chambermaids at Yale's sister college, Smith, also threatened to strike last week over a story in Tatler, the campus funny magazine, about "Maids We Have Known And Loved"-including "one who was four feet wide ... a high-grade moron," another with "monstrous buck teeth." Smith's maids...
Last week Editor Gauvreau published his confessions*- a sulfurous document which ordinary newsmen found alternately exciting, terrifying, hilarious, gagging, slightly sanctimonious, good for their souls. Confesses Gauvreau: "I was a part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money...
Though that deep-rooted faith could be shaken by events on earth, it could not be uprooted. Meeting the nephew after thirty years, Teta even reached the point where she wondered about the transmutation of the Holy Mass. But a penitent pilgrimage to Rome, she knew, would restore her faith...
This week Great Britain seemed to be more afraid of peace than war. London circulated a weird story: to convince the U. S. that Hitler had become a penitent, religious man, Father Odo had been sent to the U. S. by Clipper. Father Odo is Karl Alexander Maria Philipp Joseph...
The House of Commons heckled penitent Mr. Churchill a bit, but also it listened gladly to other statements with which he barraged his admissions. Members heard that he had just returned from a trip to France to persuade the French Navy to send its two speedy battle-cruisers, Dunkerque and...