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...never heard, which had not been tried anywhere, and for which Russia was called unfit by the very men who had invented this idea of society. If Czarism needed an Okhrana, clearly the Bolshevist state would need a super-Okhrana to fill the larger social vacuum...
Such a spontaneous movement from the rank-and-file clearly indicates the popular demand to fill the social vacuum in the House system. The "idea" of the Houses--intellectual contact between faculty and students--suffered greatly when tutorial was beaten to its knees a couple of years ago. The companion theory that a House should bring students with common interests together, has also been almost submerged. Many of the difficulties arose from the war, and the Houses are only slowly feeling their way back to solid ground with such activities as the Eliot House seminars and the language tables...
...trailer, a Persian lamb coat, a diamond ring, a diamond watch, a trip to Manhattan, the Vermont mountains and Bermuda, a ten-piece wardrobe, an electric refrigerator, a pantryful of canned goods, a set of fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year's supply of bed linen, an electric mixer...
...intellectual Vacuum" that was Europe at the war's end, has arisen gradually an ineatiable demand for knowledge and more knowledge to fill that vacuum. Students have helped rebuild universities with their bare hands. Many have been turned away from colleges for lack of space. Often there is only enough paper for one students to take notes for an entire class. Few books are available and, whenever a magazine is able to increase its publication, all issues are soon hungrily devoured...
Mike Romanoff, Hollywood restaurateur turned columnist, advised Eric Johnston, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman: "I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman myself, and I can tell you it's nice outdoor work. Go back, Mr. Johnston, before . . . it's too late...