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What type of feminine English fiction reader may be calculated to suffer most from "an unprobed spirit of romance"? Why, who but a typist? A pure, attractive, hardworking, intelligent young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town...
...would best please light fiction-readers right now? Why, the menace of Communism, to be sure. The newspapers are full of it every day and the Home Secretary lately held that raid on the Reds' London headquarters, no end spectacular even if it did not prove much. Typist, world-traveler, Communism ? the very thing. Hurrah...
...Danish and Japanese companies. This present cable laid a quarter century ago can carry only 100 letters per minute. During the present turmoil in China it has been found by the Government as well as by the U. S. press and business about as inadequate as a one-fingered typist at a political convention...
...President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
Married. The Hon. Ivor Montagu, 22, third son of wealthy Jewish banker, Lord Swaythling, head of Samuel Montagu & Co.; to Typist Eileen Hellstern, daughter of a surgical shoemaker; secretly, in London...