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...Upshot of two and one-half hours of stimulating but sometimes diffuse conversation?for even the Sage of Adelphi Terrace can be unclear?is that the young lovers (Romney Brent and Peg Entwhistle) decide to risk it and become man and wife, and the one flesh...
With so many charges he scarcely knew what to do, Judge Corrigan lodged them in a jail, a Catholic home, a welfare institution. Then he conferred anxiously with Attorney General Bennett and Lawyer Samuel Seabury, the referee in charge of the State's investigation of the city courts. Upshot: back went all but one of the girls to Bedford. The 48th, one Anna Peltz, whom the New York World described as "a buxom girl of 19 with a wiggling walk," was left in town to be retried as a test case...
...recent National Student-Faculty Conference held at the Book-Cadillac hotel here, considered, among other problems, the burning question of extra-curricular activities. The upshot of the discussion was that this phase of the college program demands constant adaptation to the great world of life outside the cameos, so that those activities duplicating communal institutions, such as, the press, art, and music, prevail over the non-vital projects found all too often in the academic sphere...
...husband and went with him. Years later it was wise Charlotte Löwensköld who rescued Karl Arthur from the woman who was dragging him down, persuaded him to go to Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like most human arrangements the upshot of these lives was a patched-up compromise; but thanks to Selma Lagerlöf you feel the best has been made of a universally bad bargain. The Ring of the Löwenskölds is the Literary Guild choice for January...
...Upshot of the President's outburst was that the World, which paid $12,000 for the Kelley articles, seemed surer than ever to get what it professed to desire most-a Congressional investigation of the whole matter...