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...disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused to laugh sharply, taking a shrewd thrust at his critics, then continued, making his points vigorously. He was giving newshawks better copy than he had given them in months, but the head of more than one newshawk, bending over his note pad, shook slowly from side to side while its owner murmured...
...enacted a pageant of the school's history. Outside is a parade ground where 1,700 boys marched last week in cadet uniforms. But Latin School boys learn their lesson as they always have-by grinding long hours over their books. Headmaster Powers hates "frills" with all the vigor of his Yankee predecessors. Harvard's President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell turned up at the tercentenary exercises to praise Latin School's "insistence on hard work and its methods of self-education." Many an old Latin School boy nodded approvingly at the message which Philosopher George Santayana...
...Fish & Vigor. After 30 years' study of primitive people, Dr. West on A. Price, Cleveland dentist, concluded that aborigines who eat coarse food which contains large amounts of minerals are strong and healthy. "The natives of the South Sea Islands are a hardy, upright race. Their women of 85 are as vigorous as American women of 50. They have but few wrinkles on their faces, they retain their teeth and live strenuous lives. Their principal food is fish, which is rich in mineral content, the building material for the body. Expectant mothers eat raw fish...
This time he got up to the ground floor, and safely inside. He landed a job as salesman for a new patent medicine called Vinol, sold it with such vim & vigor that at 25 he was able to organize Drug Merchants of America, a buying agency for retail druggists. The scheme burgeoned, flowered into United Drug, with Liggett as secretary, then president and general manager. When a bright employe coined the name Rexall for Liggett's patent medicines, his Boston factory was continually racked with growing pains. Though "Liggett's own deepest convictions were against" chain stores...
...vigor and spontaneity which marks the first act of the Pudding show compare so favorably with a Broadway production that it is only fair to subject "Foemen of the Yard" to a critical review. Catchy music, fetching chorines, capable comics, and amusing situations combine to make the audience as enthusiastic as the cast. As a result, it is inevitable that one feels just a little disappointed to discover that the second and much shorter act constantly threatens to develop into a routine affair...