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...discharge when they were normally slated for renewals of their appointments? Is this action a continuation of the frozen budget policy said to be responsible for the Walsh-Sweezy fiasco? Has many attention been paid to the Committee's suggestion for a more flexible budget? Will Harvard, by this rude action, lose the reputation for decency which has helped to make it famous...
...condemn any discourtesy on the part of German passengers or ship's personnel. . . . Instead, they made themselves thoroughly objectionable, with the exception of two charming families who, by the way, did not mix with the others. They stared and made loud comments about fellow passengers, they were rude and demanding with the stewards, they made the decks and public rooms as untidy and dirty as I have never seen them on a German boat, were noisy during concerts and made as free with others' deck chairs and rugs as with their own. It may sound petty, but over...
Lady Astor rose last week before a conference of 3,000 women Conservatives, to speak in favor of a Government-sponsored bill abolishing criminal floggings. She found to her surprise that not only were the majority of the women for flogging, but positively rude about it. Throughout her remarks they chorused "No!" "Oh!" "Shame!" Lady Astor, no mean heckler herself, asked for silence first applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more...
...opener. Those statesmen who believed that the New Spain would soon forsake its Rome-Berlin allies and go over to Britain and France had a rude shock, moreover, in the diplomatic tribulations of Marshal Philippe Petain at San Sebastian and Burgos. The 81-year-old Marshal was picked as French Ambassador to Spain because it was thought he would be able to talk to El Caudillo as one military man to another. El Caudillo did not see it that...
...TIME thinks "smink" is a rude word...