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...school's turn to appeal. Lord Goddard, the Lord Chief Justice, heard the case last week. Two doctors told him that Eva had rheumatism, and ought to be kept warm. "But keeping warm has nothing to do with wearing slacks," boomed one judge. "One of the warmest garments is the kilt." Lord Goddard summed up: "Suppose some parents said they thought that in summer a child, in the interests of health, should go to school without clothes-what then? Would the headmistress be obliged to admit the child? The headmistress has the right and power to keep discipline." Spiers...
...Tear for Taxes. Lewis saved his coldest fury for his warmest subject, coal. "The coal industry," said he, "should be exporting 50 million tons of coal this year instead of a fraction of that amount. It would make the difference between reasonable employment and subnormal employment . . . We give Italy and France and Yugoslavia and the Low Countries money. They take that money and buy Czechoslovakian coal . . . Now there is no reason why [Japan] shouldn't get [coal] from the U.S. except that we don't have the aptitude to furnish the coal, so we give her money...
...Sveshnikov. (Not to be confused with Esteemed Steel Puddler of the Hammer and Sickle Works, M. G. Gusarov and His Brigade, which was also on display.) Only occasionally, beneath the pictures' painful precision and the dutiful glorification of the Soviet paradise, was there a glimpse of real feeling. Warmest and least inhibited were a few animal lithographs, in which furry bear cubs tumbled and played joyously with twigs...
...Curtin, soprano; Eunice Alberts, contralto; William Hess, tenor; Paul Matthen, bass. All except Mr. Hess are local musicians and have frequently appeared as soloists in Boston. A mediumsized audience responded to the group's superb artistry as well as to its evident enthusiasm in performance by one of the warmest ovations I have witnessed this season in Sanders Theatre...
...Creole nobility of Martinique, the wife of the Count d'Orgel. When the story begins after World War I, Mahaut is scarcely more than a child and is deeply in love with her husband, a man of 30; "in return, [the count] showed her much gratitude and the warmest friendship, which he himself mistook for love...