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Does the Wellesley girl notice the details of her college boy friends' clothes? Or is she too absorbed in keeping her own aura of charm undisturbed by a shiny nose, a meandering lock, or even a temperamental shoulder strap to pay attention to such matters...
Disciplinarians the world over took heart last week from the action of the school board of Edmonton, Alberta. Concluding a discussion of unruly pupils, the board decreed that henceforth they shall be whipped with straps of a standard size. For pupils in Grade 6 or higher the strap shall be 16 to 19 in. long, 2 to 2½ in. wide, ⅛ to ¼ in. thick. For smaller bottoms, smaller straps...
With all the honesty of his one-way mind, King George last week was nobly troubled, and so were the best of His Majesty's subjects. No English gentleman who has been taught with the rough end of a strap to write Latin verse at Eton ever thinks of Eternal Rome with other than profound cultural respect, and Pope Pius XI was probably right in thinking last week that the last place on which British bombs will ever fall is the City of the Caesars. All the same, Kaiser Wilhelm II became a "beastly Hun" for some years...
...down false clues was as important and tedious as the more showy labor of capture and arrest. When the body of Minnie Bonati was discovered, in the Charing Cross Trunk Murder Case, days were wasted tracing the movements of an innocent man who happened to have bought a trunk strap on the day of the murder...
...pair of black binoculars, in black leather case, with shoulder strap. Marked "Bonschur and Homes, Phila...