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...pays Hilda Smith, friend of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and onetime dean of Bryn Mawr, to sponsor a summer School for Workers on Manhattan's East side. There unemployed teachers get jobs and unemployed workers become pupils, get $8 a week. Last week newshawks wandered in, discovered a rack in which supplementary reading was provided for the pupils...
Shrilled Editor & Publisher: "The judge called it an endurance contest. We call it a survival of the ancient rack, the judge twisting the screws...
Rheumy-eyed Prince Saionji, the tottering Last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen) again had to rack his withered old brains last week. He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes. Some 60 officers of the Imperial fleet, all potent sea dogs with the rank of captain or higher, had just laid reverently but firmly before the Throne a petition dangerous as dynamite. They asked the Son of Heaven to tear up in his infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with...
...given subject down cold, cold, cold. It doesn't make so much difference what subject you pick, as long as you know it backwards and forwards. Then, when you tackle a question on the exam, you start your answer by repeating the question on your paper; then you rack your brain for some way of connecting the question up to the subject which you know cold. Having found this missing link, you write that in and then write down all the dope about this pet subject of yours. In most cases the results are satisfactory. One man we know...
...which a row of leather-aproned Italians bend over a rail. One operator holds in his fingers the dozen fish-line strings attached to Don Juan's flexible joints. Another dangles the little peasant girl. When Don Juan crosses the stage, the steady-handed operators exchange their rack of strings with incredible dexterity. Husband & wife, father & son, these operators have been bred in the art of Italian marionet work...