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...authorized. It had not been officially ap pointed for general use. Of the fact that Dean William Foxley Norris had an nounced that the prayer would not be used in Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop took no notice. He had bigger things afoot than praying for his country's pocketbook. The biggest thing that Dr. Lang has been working on is a cause of much concern to his great brother-in-God, Pope Pius XI. The Archbishop and the Pope have never met, doubtless never will; but if they should, they might well - much as great rival bankers might discuss...
...confidence was placed have not been infallible after all, and the economic situation rapidly becomes of the acutest personal interest. In the great days of prosperity it was only the most immediate economic problems which affected the ordinary citizen, and the relationship between world financial tangles and the individual pocketbook was only vaguely felt. Today, analysis and glosses of the world's monetary problems are broadcast by press and radio. Most of them pass over the ordinary head, but general impressions nevertheless remain. Smith and Jones are at least unforgettably aware of the magnitude of the situation...
...Leviathan entered New York Harbor last week and passed the Statue of Liberty, a fat old woman extracted from her pocketbook a faded U. S. flag of silk and waved it with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...
...want people to eat in the House, you can scarcely want less than ten meals per person per week; one a day and three besides or two a day Monday through Friday. As for getting the beast to drink, he may holler if you pinch him in the pocketbook, but where else will you pinch him? You could put it up to University 4, a shocking alternative but the only...
...blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass...