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Woods Raps. Scarcely had the delegates assembled-many of them slant-eyed poppy-landers - when hard-fisted Colonel Arthur Woods* hurled a policeman's challenge: "There may be too much diplomacy and too little roughshod direct police action in the fight against narcotic outlaws. . . . To crush the international narcotic traffic we must have international police action...
...Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week a boy of 14, Farnan Parker of Anderson, Ind., stepped into his plane and flew from his home to Philadelphia. He took his time, stopping twice en route, arriving in 18 hours...
...shaped, humped or square head is not necessarily an indication of low brainpower. Many slant heads belong to fine thinkers...
...nothing against Major Moore and Mr. Getchell, so I won't spoil the crowd for them by telling your CRIMSON readers how the game is coming out." Despite the pleas of the editors, he was adamant, so this, the first of his offerings is without any slant on the Harvard-Rensselaer game. The other games are,, Joe leclares, sure to result as follows...
...Orpen is for line as well as for clean modeling and Velasquez-like depths of air. Also among the 34 plates are some very fair reproductions of oils unfamiliar to most U. S. enthusiasts-the leer-eyed Gypsies on the Hill of Howth; two allegories that only a slant-headed little faun from the hills could have painted-Sewing New Seed and A Western Wedding...