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Mount Holyoke, which made testy gentlemen snort "rib factory" and "Protestant nunnery" when famed Mary Lyon founded it in 1837, is the eldest and most retiring of the five sisters. Always studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley...
...known Greta Garbo in Stockholm. Three years ago he firmly refused to marry fat Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. But for Erika he could think of nothing but marriage. Several months ago he took his little blonde back to Stockholm to get the King's permission. With a snort of pain Gustaf packed up and went down to the Riviera to play tennis, knowing well that Swedish law forbids a prince to marry in Sweden without his permission. But Sigvard was set on deserting the dwindling ranks of the Swedish royalty. Last week he took Erika to Britain where...
Cattlemen had asked Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 to subsidize beef raisers and dairymen who agreed to curtail production. This made Speaker Rainey snort: "It might prove more effective and far simpler than appropriating these sums for the Government to take over the packing industry and operate it by the Government's paying fixed prices ... if the packers continue to exercise their monopolistic powers to drive down prices. . . . They are interfering with the entire program and stand in open defiance of the entire recovery...
Some readers laugh, some are annoyed; some snort with disgust or indignation. Gertrude Stein, writer for posterity ("I write for myself and strangers'") does not mind. Says she slyly: "My sentence: do get under their skin...
...circulation to 176,000, two-and-a-half times the Chronicle's. Baron Camrose wailed in protest against the Rothermere circulation method, which was to give free and hearty dinners plus free insurance policies to longtime subscribers. But ruthless Rothermere's only reply was to snort his contempt of "old fogies" in the business. In Bristol Rothermere dazzled the natives by building the most modern and luxurious newspaper plant outside of London...