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...Chicago Board of Education entered their high-ceilinged meeting room. President J. Lewis Coath, melancholy-looking, thin-lipped, sat down on his dias, his subordinates at their desks facing him. In their impassiveness they resembled Indians at a pow-wow with white men. Superintendent Wm. McAndrew, on trial for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12 et seq.), looked at them with contempt. Another of his many intermittent hearings was about to commence...
...better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits are as nimble as their wings, they keep going until they fall, perhaps under a public chandelier, perhaps into a highball...
With such mighty probabilities in his brief case, the Personal Representative entrained for Cleveland, where jubilant Spanish-American War Veterans held a pow-wow to welcome their returning onetime president, where he prepared to put the finishing niceties on his report before going to the President. Said he: "My mission to the Philippines has been one of some delicacy...
...established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 Presidential nomination is settled. His hold on New York State-more specifically New York City-is partly the glamor of the Fulton Fish Market, the "sidewalks of New York" and the band-snorting pow-wow.* But, also, he makes it a point to know more about the government of New York than any of his rivals and he explains it to the people better than any one else...
...political pow-wow on the night before election to "bring out the vote," with ts sputtering red fires and Roman candles, its brass bands, its raucous boys beating garbage cans, its stout old men parading with signs hitched crazily to curtain rods, was once a fundamental U. S. institution. Now only Tammany Hall and lower Manhattan indulge in it heavily...