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...born this daughter Alva. Not every young lady from Alabama went to school in France. And not every U. S. schoolgirl in France met William Kissam Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
...adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck; to state that their food and heat are to be curtailed (although the young ladies on the stage seem plump and warm enough); to picture them tucked into a dormitory full of little white beds which would have very little terror for U. S. boarding school girls...
...average newspaper office is an unfortunate environment for one who is upset by hearing profanity. Presumably the staff of the well-mannered New York Times is purer of speech than the staffs of lustier papers; but the Times's religious editor, a plump, twittery, fiftyish lady named Rachel K. McDowell, has harbored a phobia against swearing since childhood. Lately Times newsmen found in their mailboxes small white slips printed as follows...
Defense counsel, including Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union, put Burns's plump grey mother and preacher brother on the stand for emotional appeal. A penologist testified that Georgia's penal system was "the worst," that Burns would die if returned. Counsel argued that Burns had been led to believe he would get a quick parole if he waived extradition when he returned to the chain gang...
...Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane of energy who was a Western Air vice president until both he and Philbin withdrew last year. In charge of operations is Vice President Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, speed flyer...