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...finally ended with an optimistic speech by Mrs. D. Leigh Cclvin, who predicted that national prohibition would be restored by the W.C.T.U. because "we've already done so many strange things." As a last cheering gesture a Mrs. Kaiser who "wore a brown ensemble with a light tan plume in her hat" sang one of her own compositions, the last lines of which carried this inspiring message...
When the new Malkiri Conservatory in Boston wanted a big name to plume its faculty list this autumn, it sent an invitation to Arnold Schönberg who, being a Jew, was leaving his job at the Prussian Academy of Music in Berlin. Great was the interest aroused by Schönberg's acceptance. He has upset conservative concertgoers more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
...naval torpedo is a little submarine, driven by compressed air and steered by a gyroscopic brain. The brain can only keep the torpedo on its course, cannot swerve it to strike a ship whose captain has seen the white plume of the torpedo's compressed air wake and swerved his course to avoid the deadly charge. Last week the Imperial Japanese Navy, tired of wasting torpedoes which miss their mark and cost more than $5,000 each, sent out a quiet request for volunteers to man a new type of "human torpedo...
...Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain...
Some tepid discussion followed. Then, fortnight ago, a Protestant nunnery was described in America, urbane Jesuit weekly, by "The Pilgrim"-nom de plume for any staff member. Telling of tramping through Rhode Island, "The Pilgrim" said he came upon a convent, knocked at its door in hope of getting a cup of tea. The convent Portress gave him some. He inquired the name of the sisterhood...