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...easy job. Trustees, closer in touch than those of boarding schools, may have too many notions about running things. The parents and children may be more concerned with social life than with scholarship. Day schools are never very lavishly endowed, and when hard times come there is not much slack to be taken up. Last week, very much aware of these things, the headmaster of socialite Chicago Latin School for Boys announced "retirement" at the end of the school year...
...sticks." The Baby R. 0. G. class was limited to models of 30 sq. in. maximum wing area, 8 in. length. One after another 20 "babies" took off from the floor, made wide spirals toward the arched ceiling, propellers flailing the air. One after another fluttered floorward, rubber motors slack, to land on paper-thin balsa-wood wheels, until at the end of 7½ min. only one was still in the air for a new world record in its class...
From his observation and ripe reflection the Vagabond draws this conclusion: that, with the probable exception of life at Versailles in the reign of the Sun God, there never existed a more vacant, unintelligent, wasteful, slack, stupid, unsound, decayed, vapid, altogether delightful way for a young woman of ability and beauty to spend her evenings and sleep her mornings. The three cousins and the two dear friends have never quite agreed with the Vagabond, but then neither will Anne-whom Aristotle would call the efficient cause of this disquisition. Anne may, near the end of January come near admitting that...
...based on Negro metaphysical practices in Haiti, which Author William B. Seabrook. credulous savage-lover, exploited in The Magic Island. Seabrook was enthusiastically noncommittal about the actual existence of ''zombies'' (animated dead men). The picture fervently believes in them. Dazed Madge Bellamy has come to Haiti to marry slack-jawed John Harron. Robert Frazer. her secret admirer, invites the two young people to his house to be married. To prevent the marriage he goes to a zombie tycoon. Bela Lugosi. who looks like a comic imbecile, can make his jawbones rigid and show-the whites of his eyes. These abilities...
...miracle to come about to absorb the unemployed and unemployment has risen to a total in excess of 10.000.000. What has Congress done? We have brought about no recovery in business by any action so far and it is clear that private industry is unable to take up the slack. Thus far we have been smug, complacent, waiting for someone else. But the situation can't be met that way. . . . The primary purpose behind this bill is to help States and municipalities which are being forced to abandon projects because they cannot sell securities." The relief legislation had hardly...