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...seek happiness in marriage while my father and mother and eldest brother are in prison." In Ahmedabad the Government seized St. Gandhi's spinning wheel, clock, cup board, two iron safes, $10 in cash and a typewriter. Unperturbed, the Mahatma in his cell at Yerovda Jail continued to scrawl letter after letter on morals, health, religion and the rearing of children...
...illustrate this talk Mr. Allen will make use of the exhibition of personal relies of Amy Lowell which was put on view yesterday. Among these are notebooks written in her scrawl at nine years of age, while in Berlin. In these can be found her first efforts at verse. There are also manuscripts of later poems showing how well she chose her words and constructed and fitted her lines. Letters, notes for her lectures in Boston on Keats and Matthew Arnold, and many photographs complete the collection...
...plebiscite over 50% of the qualified voters in Prussia (roughly 13,500,000 citizens) had to scrawl JA on their ballots. The tactics of Chancellor Brüning and Premier Braun of Prussia were not to urge citizens to vote against it, but to urge citizens to stay away from the polls altogether. They made but one mistake. So serious did Herren Brüning & Braun consider the situation that they made use of a new emergency press law to force every German newspaper to print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment...
...that Madrid thought Alfonso was signing his abdication, the round Plaza del Oriente in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid was kept clear by police and mounted Civil Guards. Inside, pale, sober Alfonso XIII scratched busily at his manifesto with a gold pen. With a scrawl of his signature he rose, handed the paper to Count de Romanones, "richest man in Spain," until that morning Royalist Minister of State. Said Alfonso to the Count...
...reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other such important philosophical problems. These discussions are usually worried along by laymen whose only qualification lies...