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...obvious conclusion arrives. Poorer, wiser and more awake to the dignity of washing dishes, Mary returns to Cinder Town. Once more the kinetic nobility of Furze charges her heart with true love. He takes her to be his housekeeper. If she succeeds at her tasks, he will marry her. She succeeds...
...class of 1929 was found to have made a slightly poorer record than the previous Freshman class, having 1.6 percent fewer men on the Dean's List, 1.8 percent more men with unsatisfactory records, and approximately the same number whose connection...
...individual Freshman as was then made would not be altogether the best thing for them when they passed to the Sophomore year and began to do upper-class work; and accordingly the pressure and supervision from the office were slightly relaxed and this may explain the slightly poorer record made by the Class...
...Here's the New York Evening Post's corner?the Old Couples' Christmas Fund. No one under 60; not one's had a decent meal since last Christmas. Documents to prove it; every case investigated. Better than ever before?older, poorer, sicker, more miserable. Testimonials by Fannie Hurst, Rex Beach, Konrad Bercovici, Frank
...effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches after a drop of three feet, thus affording a measure of amusement before taking. Their constant buyers have always been among the poorer middle classes everywhere, who cringe from a doctor's bill, but can afford lOc for 12 pills, or 25c for 40, or 50c for 90. Still, Sir Joseph, on a visit to the U. S. in 1912, could brag: "My pills are taken by dukes and lords, who conceal...