Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declare a boycott at Gandhi's order, even the Empire Prime Minister, big and beefy Stanley Baldwin, might well tremble at the ultimatum of India's skinny little saint. As matters stand, it can only be said that the Gandhi boycott of several years ago was a serious but not fatal blow to Great Britain's vital trade with India. Whether a more effective boycott could be staged next year is a question for Hindu Gods-and Mohammed's Allah-to answer. Last week the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress put Saint Gandhi...
Evangelists of the Methodist Episcopal Church South lamented last week that they had no jobs. Said Rev. John Patty of Chattanooga, addressing the convention of evangelists at Memphis: "Unemployment . . . has reached serious proportions and something must be done to enlist the sympathy of the . . . ministers, to open the doors of the churches...
...recommended that a national convention of student leaders, athletic directors, coaches, and athletes should draft the code and establish specific standards of amateurism, professionalism, and eligibility. Cheek pointed out that a serious disparity existed in eligibility rules and that a man could be a professional in one conference and an amateur in another...
...news in Medicine. I was especially pleased to note that you commended Julius Rosenwald's latest philanthropy in establishing a clinic for the middle class. I wish others would follow his good example, for nowhere is there a greater need than help for the "poor and proud" in serious illness, by endowing good Hospitals so they can make rates that can be met by people of moderate means...
...period gown of cream crepe and silver (or was it crystal?) seemed a part of her. She was alternately serious and arch; now she reflected the lights and shadows of the land of her birth; now she was the spirit of the beauty of Paris, where she has a home; now she might be demanding that her fairy dreams might be also philosophical...