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...their dues and take their D's, the middle class, who find their sex at Radcliffe and Wellesley, and the working classes, grade grubbers. In so far as it is discernible, their attitude seems to be that brewed at the tea tables of Brattle street and Shaler Lane, a prim pursing of the lips at the mention of kidnapping, deb-chasing or codfishing, and a muttered "boys will be boys...
...prevailing intellectual atmosphere of the unit. Not entirely by accident, Lowell House has become largely a center for serious scholastic endeavor. There is an air of profundity hovering over the lamb and mint sauce, an air of correctness about the entertainments. One finds it difficult to fancy the prim and stainless chandeliers of that sunny dining room jangling to the raucous laughter of a "Shoemaker's Holiday." Men of Lowell find their pleasure in musicales and staid comedies...
...gold watch he pulled out of his vest pocket and laid on his paper-cluttered desk when Texas' Senator Morris Sheppard rose in the Senate chamber one day last week. A small, prim man with greying hair and narrow eyes, his greatest claim to fame is being co-author of the 18th Amendment. The happiest, proudest day of his 57 years (30 of them in Congress) "came Aug. 1, 1917 when the Senate wrote national Prohibition into the Constitution. Every Jan. 16 since, all Senate business has had to halt while the "Father of the 18th Amendment" delivered...
Looking very prim with a black-ribboned pince-nez, Owen D. Young last week spent five hours in Manhattan explaining his business dealings with Samuel Insull. His questioner was Lewis F. Jacobson, counsel for the owners of $60,000,000 worth of debentures in Insull Utility Investments Inc. He sought "to prove complete knowledge by the officials of the General Electric Co. of the financial structure of the bankrupt and the restrictions against pledging securities...
Anna Mathilda McNeill, born in Wilmington, N. C. 128 years ago, was a very prim and formidable lady, proud of her relationship to the McNeills of Barra, the Fairfaxes of Virginia. She married a U. S. Army engineer, bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to build a railroad in that country: between Moscow and St. Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest...