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Feng Flayed- Members of the present Chinese Government cannot very well be taken to pieces by a Shanghai editor & publisher, but what Mr. Woodhead might have written can be surmised from his manner of cutting loose about recent Chinese leaders who are barely over the threshold of retirement, such as the famed "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
...Brides are not kicked. In Sweden the general custom prevails for the groom to carry his wife over the threshold...
...mood of "hence, vain deluding joys." This problem faces every freshman, and if his friends, his purse or his tastes decide for him, the decision must be made--whether to regard youth (which means university career) as a gift which must be enjoyed, or as a fateful threshold to life. Only the very lucky ones can have it both ways, can dance in the Spring and reap a catch crop harvest in the Autumn...
...White House one day last week watched the dandruff-flecked coat collar of Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins as its owner hurried up a corridor to keep an appointment with President Roosevelt. Later the bowlegs of Hugh Samuel Johnson carried that old-time cavalryman over the Presidential threshold. And when General Johnson reappeared, it was to announce without much pleasure that he had just been made Federal Works Progress Administrator for New York City. Boarding a plane with his faithful secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, the General therewith flew off to New York...
...milk is still a bargain in food values. ... It is difficult to estimate how many persons in this country are so poor they are unable to purchase the food necessary to keep them in health. . . . But something like 20,000,000 American people are living near or below the threshold of nutritive safety. This condition, if continued, will surely affect the health of the race. The income of these people must be raised or the price of food lowered...