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...representatives of the 48 States assembled in her honor at the Biltmore Hotel. Manhattan, Queen Marie distributed, "as a surprise," 48 sheets of ruled paper with a blue cross on the upper right-hand corner. On each Her Majesty had written with bold upright pen strokes an apostrophe to a state, had signed "MARIE...
...chattered gleefully with the exuberance of 17, waved a dutiful goodbye to stout ladies in waiting, was Girl Guide Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau. As she sat, perforce upright, upon a brightly varnished but angular third class bench, few would have supposed her the sole heir to one of Europe's largest and most thriftily hoarded fortunes. Throughout the week, as she did camp girl duty (cooked, scrubbed, mended) few chance visitors guessed that this bright-eyed buxom girl was Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, heir to the throne...
...majority of people this is true-those who believe that Man sprung from a nobler source than the jungle [sic]. It was Marie Corelli, was it not, or was it Mrs. Eddy, or another watchful observer of the times, who first suspected that man was weary of walking upright and looking at the stars ; and judging from the doings of experimenting scientists, this weariness is leading man into strange and shadowy paths-the blending of the ape and man-monkey spawn and angel spawn. Queer things are coming from Russia! ELMER MILLS...
...euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text by Truman Moon of Littletown (N. Y.) High School were deleted in toto, and to save argument Author Moon was not even consulted about it. Statements like, "Evolution is a slow and gradual process," and "It must be remembered that the upright position of man is an acquired position," were simply left out. Upright Texas believers may now trust their children abroad in the fearsome school world. Intelligent Texans, the theory has it, will understand the diplomatic Fergusons' little gesture and explain to their children what "development" really means...
Arthur Jamieson's unflinching Putter beat Robert Gardner. The U. S. team captain sliced and hacked erratically, while Jamieson's upright playing adequately justified his inclusion on the British team. Especially shaky was Captain Gardner's putting, so that Jamieson was not only able to maintain his morning lead but increased it during the afternoon's playing...