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...pageants which survive every changing fashion took place this week in Manhattan. No preliminary folderol or new mise en scene was needed to insure its success. The order of events was essentially unchanged: a tense, gibbering line of folk waiting for admission, a battery of flashlight photographers ready to waylay bejeweled dowagers, a corps of bustling society reporters jotting down the names of people who bowed and scraped to others not really noticed since the pageant of the year before. So, as it has 46 times before, the Metropolitan Opera began a new season...
...attempts to control women do not promise much success to this project. The traditional last word of Xantippe and the saline perversity of the wife of Lot show that restrictions are not particularly adaptable to them. The objection of the associate editor of the college newspaper that co-eds "waylay and harass the male students", and, "destroy the studious and scholarly atmosphere of the college," are just as vain as the same argument that resulted in Socrates taking up his abode in the public square. At Detroit fifty girls are opposed to two thousand men, but Cleopatra had something that...
...describe Candidate Smith, talk about Tolerance and "hope for the best at Houston." Mobile, Ala., threatened to waylay the Walker train if he did not stop there. Other eager cities were Winston-Salem, Montgomery, Birmingham. In New York, Candidate Smith pursued his policy of prayerful silence, hoping that Northern Negroes would understand why none of their race can be taken to Houston as delegates; hoping that the South will not mind if National Democratic Chair-man Clem L. Shaver should be ousted and replaced by Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William...
...putting on the boxing gloves and fighting a boy his own weight. We have been using the plan for more than 15 years and it has had an amazing effect on discipline. Until five years ago it was the practice of the poorer boys to band together and actually waylay the children of wealthy parents and steal their lunches, fruit and money. The last time one of our boys was beaten and robbed ... I rounded up the ruffians and made them put on the eight-ounce gloves with boys of their own weight. That ended the banditry. Of course...
...James Thomas Heflin of Alabama said in the U. S. Senate: "Monsignor Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...