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...sign of the times when an alumnus of this College, be he David Schine or Beelzebub, is so muck-raked in the CRIMSON as to his private life and habits while at College. For the author of the article to go around questioning Schine's tradesmen, janitors, roommates and even his Radcliffe girl-friends, is to show that he is training himself for work not unlike the public life of Mr. Schine himself...
...slipping into baggy slacks, he relaxed for an afternoon of pottering about the rose garden with his wife. Next day he read the lesson at the local Anglican church, where he is vicar's warden. In his constituency Rab is universally respected and frequently liked, by gentry and tradesmen alike. "They say he's a cold fish," snorted a retired admiral who often shoots with him. "That's nonsense. Of course, he does not wear his heart on his sleeve. But Rab stands for quality, sir, quality! And that's rare nowadays...
...time a colossal plumbing bill knocks him flat. Down he goes again when the interior decorator delivers his account. ("Sconces!" he croaks, discovering that all he gets for so much money are wall fixtures.) In the next few months, Red plays hard to get, but the tradesmen get him anyway. By quick stages, he is reduced to a fiscal wreck who can only make feeble protests against his son's dental expenses. Thereupon his wife stuns him to silence and final despair by explaining coldly that, when a baby tooth falls out prematurely, "the other teeth drift...
Reverse English. In London, Conservative M.P. Major Sydney Markham complained in the House of Commons that tradesmen, cashing in on the coming coronation, were using objectionable ads, e.g.: "Ladies' underwear, ornamented with the Union Jack at the rear...
Even after the Canadian dollar climbed above the value of the U.S. dollar early this year, most Canadian tradesmen accepted U.S. coins at par rather than bother with fractional discounts. But U.S. coinage, which trickles in at a steady rate with tourists and travelers, tended to stay in Canada and circulate; it was easier to keep the stuff moving than turn it in to a bank in small quantities. By last week the dual coinage was getting to be such a nuisance that Canadian banks moved to end it by putting an extra handling charge on coin exchanges. To protect...