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...shadchen himself, Rabbi Wolf explained why a marriage broker is useful: ''When you meet a girl on the street or in the subway, all you see is the veneer, the varnish. Now the marriage broker investigates. He looks up the money part of the woman and investigates the man's past, his relations and his standing. The proper way to size up a person is to see if he has business with a bank. If he doesn't deal with a bank, he's no good...
...willing to guard his privacy with medieval tortures. Loyalty to the traditions of the regiment and its effect on human emotion are represented in the commanding colonel. Under his command are his son, whom duty commands he disregard; a replacement from the Blues whose Oxford training has lent a veneer to his emotions; and the lieutenant who rebels against the substitution of duty for human affections. The actions of these four individuals make up the story...
Succeeding old Bill Lutz, who died last spring at over seventy years of age, as the premier boat builder here, the 43 year old Dane takes great pride in his craftsmanship. Just now he is recovering with a veneer of Spanish cedal the hull of an eight which was wrecked this fall in a head-on collision with another shell. Two weeks of work will make it serviceable...
...chosen few who edit the Guide Book see fit to revise it, it is strongly urged that they include hammer and chisel as essentials on any blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...
...pari-mutuel betting. Since Moscow shops have lately been permitted to copy a few Paris models and sell them at fantastic prices to the wives of potent Reds, there were scores of modishly dressed women in the grandstands. To silence shocked old Bolsheviks, and give the Red Derby a veneer of serious purpose, great signboards were plastered with quotations from a recent speech by War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov: WITHOUT HORSES WE CAN'T WORK DON'T FORGET OUR HORSES WE NEED HORSES FOR DEFENSE AS WELL AS FOR WORK...