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...Publishers. Publishing is now the smart profession for college youths who fancy neither the drabness of bonds nor the toil of butter-and-eggs. But some of them find a good deal of both in the smart profession, and become good publishers. Two men who have survived enough of the toil to start their own concern (with the publication of Diversey), are Thomas Coward and James McCann. The former, nine years out of Yale College, has worked with The Yale University Press and Bobbs-Merrill Co., was National Squash champion in 1922. The latter, up-from-office-boy at Doubleday...
...obscurity of Queen Motherhood. Withdrawing to her own palace, she placidly watched while the high spirits of Queen Wilhelmina were tamed by responsibility until today Her Majesty is addicted to coining and obeying such dull maxims as: "By respecting traditions we honor the Dead, who have created them through toil and labor." Quite tame is the present Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, plump product of a mother who has definitely settled down. Birthday Flush. On the 70th birthday of Queen Emma, last week, the chief demonstration took the form of a cavalry charge by 150 horsemen up the leafy...
...time he devotes to his daily bread, by such soulful manufacturers as Mr. Ford. The Saturday half-holidays, the five-day week, the six-hour day, all have their ever-increasing following, and it sad time it would be for the world if those hours of freedom from toil were spent in dissipation or even innocent idleness...
Under a bright cover of appropriately aquatic design, the pages of the current "Briny Deep" number of the Lampoon offer a half-hour's entertainment to those seeking relaxation after toil during these last days of preparation for the approaching examinations. But Lampy's readers will not be allowed wholly to forget the Reading Period; for the Jester's editorial wit once again plays around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy...
...band of his sombrero. Troops of screaming monkeys swing past, stopping occasionally to grimace at us. From the depths of the forest, mountain lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully, up to their bellies in mud. ... I was finally brought to ... General Sandino's headquarters ... at San Rafael del Norte ... in the Department of Jinotega...