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...lepers; 10) the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy (Perry Burgess, president), which organized last week's cruise, needs such money for the work in the Philippines. For its effect on morale the cruising experts advised Society to abandon the horrific term "leper" to substitute the softer term "case of leprosy...
Music hath charms to soothe the Vagabond's breast, but not the wild clangor of Russian carillons soon to invade his privacy in the Lowell tower. He prefers the softer strains of Symphony Hall concerts such as that colorful performance of The Don Cossacks on Sunday afternoon...
...commercial interests. National Prune Week, Drink More Sauerkraut Juice Week, Mothers Day, Dads Day and other similar phenomena can all be traced to high pressure advertising. The hypocritical effusions of florists, telegraph companies, and haberdashers on such occasions are obvious enough in their intent to all but the softer minded and more naive devotees of Edgar Guest and other purveyors of mental pap. In a similar manner one might justifiably suspect that the backers of American Education are not altogether altruistic. A little publicity is always a profitable thing especially when connected with such a worthy cause. Intensive propaganda...
Three days before, Messieurs les Deputes had started to talk about lace and automobiles. French lacemakers have had a hard time, of it for the past five or six years. Fashion has shunned their stuffs. Last Spring with the return of long skirts and softer, more feminine lines, lace came back. French lacemakers rejoiced. But their hopes were dashed by the publication fortnight ago of the new U. S. tariff. Lace, embroideries and tulle, depending on quality, are saddled with a duty of from...
...Flame of Belgium seemed to His Majesty so thoroughly polluted that he decreed a national ceremony for its purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated wife Crown Princess Astrid,* and his softspoken, softer-eyed sister Princess Marie José (Jan. 8, 1930, was announced last week as the day she will wed Italy's mincing-mannered but courageous Crown Prince Umberto [TIME...