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...unfortunately for Mr. Starrett, an age which contemns lush sentimentality, compells the individual to avoid, as evidence of good taste, public confession of them. In writing this present biography, then, Mr. Starrett must have been in something of a quandary. If he failed to give his exclamation points free rein, devotees would find him privately insensate; if, on the contrary, he chose to bare his personal reactions, those same devotees would very likely pronounce him bathetic...
...Henry Adams '98, and Mr. Arthur Adams '99. Members of the House will present a varied program of entertainment after dinner, to be opened by "Harmonics", a skit by Charles L. Whipple '35 Next on the program is "Dinner at Six-thirty", another skit, by Robert L.C. Rein'l '34. Accompanied by Edwin B. Marshall '34 at the piano, Richard B. Carloton '34 will play two xylophone solos, "Gypsy Mazurka" by Bohm, and "Chanson sans Paroles," by Tschaikowski. The program will be concluded by "Adams House Assizes, Michaelmas Sitting", presented by the Law School members of the House...
...liquor trade was permitted to name a committee of ten, subject to Federal approval, to fix prices. But FACA could revise these prices, hold tight rein over all phases of the industry. Increase of plant capacity over Dec. 5 output was forbidden, except under special circumstances. FACA had power to control production and distribution through a quota system. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, under whose direction the liquor industry fell, had inserted a stipulation that the industry pay "parity" prices for its raw materials. In short, it was the code which most distillers had feared and hated and which they...
...Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges had them go through their tricks of changing nimbly from walk to running walk to rack to trot to canter at the slightest touch of the rider's finger on the rein. Sweetheart on Parade stepped flawlessly, again took the blue ribbon-the last she will ever win under saddle. Henceforth Mrs. Roth will use her in harness...
...never liked the casualty lists, the crushing taxes. He gasped fortnight ago when the Navy asked for its all-time high in budget appropriations: $190,400,000. The Government will not vote on the new budget until next winter. In the meantime it gave the Army and Navy free rein to try to supplant Citizen Sato's fear of taxes with another fear, more favorable to big Navy budgets. For three days last week Tokyo, the world's third biggest city, saw the biggest war games ever shown a capital in peacetime...