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...face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price from a wife-seeker...
...There is no need for the President to visit the flood area, efficiently patrolled by Mr. Hoover and other members of the presidential commission. President Coolidge, no spotlight-seeker, has dignifiedly remained in Washington, attended to the nation's business...
...Edward W. Starling, presidential vacation-home seeker (TIME, May 16), inspected the Franklin Floete estate, offered for the President's period of summer relaxation. At Spencer, Iowa, a delegation of 50 Iowans met Colonel Starling, took him on a tour through the vicinity of Spirit Lake. Colonel Starling, with many a prospective site yet to see, neither encouraged nor discouraged the Floete "boom." ?A swarm of bees which settled in a tree on the White House grounds last October were identified by government bee culturists as the same swarm which last October escaped from the grounds of the Smithsonian...
...mention the concert in its critical column at all, rating it simply a news story, another sensational sideshow of the arts. The sophisticates or neo-sophisticates of Manhattan went, heard, were unimpressed, made no demonstration at all. The general attitude was one of puzzled indifference to a sensation-seeker. To many, this reception seemed unfair. Composer Antheil knows the classics, admires Beethoven and Handel above all others, appreciates them intelligently. He is an accomplished musician himself on orthodox instruments. His departures, though radical, are too sincere to be dismissed with a sniff for the showoff. He is, first...
...delicious period during one's college days--when April hours are over, when Spring vacation is approaching and when work has lessened for everyone but the distraught Senior--and this time is that in which Boston's theatres suffer sleeping sickness and the sole diversions open to the entertainment seeker are the movies and those sacred institutions of the drama which clutter up Scoolay Square. Such diversions are amusing but they cannot quite fill every requirement. If the playhouses must be quiescent at some time during the year there would appear, at least to the student, to be no better...