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Nora Waln's Reaching for the Stars would do this majority good. A 43-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, Nora Wain married an Englishman in the service of the Chinese government, went with him to Germany when he resigned to study music. They arrived a few days before the Blood Purge of June 1934, returned to England last April...
...razors, for such regimentation is obviously impossible. Better to suppress the shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...
...author, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, to flee precipitately from England to the Balearic Islands. The success of Author Hutchinson's latest tome, The Soft-Spot, a painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing architect, he was too obliging to examine closely the shoddy materials his friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed...
Kipling's scriptural utterance (that "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet") is made to appear more pontifical than profound by Authoress Wain's House of Exile, an autobiographical record of how a U. S. woman became an adopted member of an ancient, aristocratic Chinese family. Readers of Authoress Waln's book will feel that Kipling's quotation should be amended: for "East" read "Boxers"; for "West," "Little Englanders...
...pound Freshman, dormitory. After the cameramen, who were stationed on the Weld and Newell floats and balconies, had photographed the whole procession, the University and 150-pound crews made a few exhibition racing starts and the Lowell House oarsmen posed for special pictures with and without derbies. The cox wain of the latter eight were a plug...