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Fortnight ago Father Hugh Calkins, a leader of Chicago's perpetual novena of Our Sorrowful Mother, himself a dispenser of a popular medal of the same name, thought it time to say a few words on the subject. In his midget monthly, Novena Notes, he declared:
Harriet never tired of studying the regional types of the new nation. She was full of admiration for the Yankee who would not kneel to the Pope, but was willing to take off his hat. "The same respect," he said, "I would show to the President of the United States...
At the New York City Hall, she was greeted officially by sturdy, splenetic Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. She sat in a leather chair while the Mayor introduced her to city officials, then rose majestically, took a sheet of paper out of her handbag and, with hardly an accent, read her reply...
You Can't Be Too Careful is a witty, very ugly, very sorrowful book. If it had eloquence, and a despair of soul as well as of mind, it would rank not far below Troilus and Cressida and Journey to the End of the Night among the world'...
Rated a sorrowful underdog, the Varsity Squash team, played a surprisingly close match at New Haven Saturday, but lost to the Blue by a score of 6 to 3. With the squad's four best men dropping out earlier in the season, the team came unexpectedly close to beating one...