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Editors of Annual Golf Review believe that 90% of golfers misuse most golfing terms. Dormie is no exception. Often a player is heard to say, "You've got me dormie" (as many holes down as holes to play) when in fact his opponent is dormie. But he may say, "I am dormie down" (vulgarism). Origin of the word is obscure, but some authorities think it may spring from teh French dormir (to sleep, to be stagnant...
Iowa last week had cause to review its official policy of not giving birth control advice to families on Relief. Seven years ago John Slattery, 64-year-old teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
...gets no lasting benefit from these gold receipts, for the capital may be withdrawn as rapidly as it was sent," said National City Bank in its monthly trade & finance review. "In fact, [the gold] is a menace since . . . additions to the gold stock only increase the temptation and the pressure to put it to inflationary uses...
...careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious avoidance of partisan feeling, a mood of suppressed irony. These qualities are all revealed in his biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized man," the possessor of an extraordinarily modern type of mind. His apology...
Christopher Morley, well known essayist and novelist, waxed a bit sarcastic in the latest number of the Saturday Review in describing the effect of the new Yale College buildings, "where architects have gone whoopsdearie in Gothic. The new Yale needs a lot of walking on to give it character. ...The effect, however, is not as depressing as that endless acreage of synthetic Georgian at Harvard...