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Even Boston, for which a loyal Mayor claims a reservoir of culture, even to landscapping his name thereto in a fair, bold hand, can support little but farces and melodrama on its stage. As a stronghold of sensationalism, Boston thus shows the pruritan virus still at its worst. Until questions of sex can be fairly dealt with, fairly given a time and place, and fairly forgotten for something slightly more entertaining, Mrs. Grundy will sit in our audiences. Until then every stock company must be Comstocked and critics can always expect an infusion of Bowdlerism and balderdash...
John Rockefeller Prentice, the grandson of John Davison Rockefeller who worked his way through Yale as a telephone operator and is now a student at Yale's law school, wanted a swim. He and a crony who works for an undertaker went to Maltby Lake Reservoir, near West Haven, Conn., took off their clothes, jumped in. A policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis...
...economy that dictates bunk-sharing, there are three separate messrooms, for officers, chief petty officers, crew. Chairs and tables are made of aluminum. In the galley is a cookstove weighing only 110 lb., burning propane gas. Also in the galley (as in the toilets) is a capacious sanitary garbage reservoir to hold refuse until it can be dropped harmlessly...
Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, driving his automobile near Brookline, Mass., stopped at a hail of distress near Chestnut Hill reservoir. From an automobile partly submerged in the water he pulled one Mrs. Henry Robbins and one Joseph E. McMorrow who had been teaching the woman to drive when she lost control...
...Hoover Dam reservoir's capacity will be 30,500,000 acre-feet, of which between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 acre-feet will be a silt pocket. Estimates of what the annual silt deposit will be vary from 80,000 to 250,000 acre-feet, but Government engineers opine that the total deposit in 50 years will not exceed 3.000.000 acre-feet. Reader Stewart's friend's figures for the silt content of the Colorado River look high. Government observations at Yuma, Ariz, noted .48% silt...