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...page pamphlet by Father Edmund Aloysius Walsh. President of the Society, considered the leading Catholic authority on Russia today, one-time Director-General of the Papal Relief Mission to Russia (1921-22). Pages 28 to 30 were devoted to three Soviet cartoons, the first showing a workman climbing up to Heaven with his hammer to smash all the Gods, who appear frightened, and the third cartoon depicting the cemetery of the Gods after they have been knocked on the head and buried...
...college community. Beer is as plentiful in South Boston as more expensive liquor in the speakeasies that exist in quantities about the throbbing life of Times Square. The idea that men cannot obtain drinks in those places where there is a real demand for liquor is ridiculous. The workman can and does drink. He may prefer to make his own home brew, but if he does not there is ample opportunity to get what he wants at prices that he can or will afford. We do not subscribe to the idea that all speakeasies cater to the rich. The back...
...workman, repairing the organ in Edsel Bryant Ford's Detroit home, fumbled, dropped the console cover, smithereened a piece of Persian pottery famed to connoisseurs as the Rhages Bowl, valued...
...best sellers. Temple Bailey, Gene Stratton Porter and Charles Dickens. Like several million others, they prefer the films to the drama, and musical comedy to opera. They like sacred music, also jazz and love songs. The average teacher is the daughter of a small business man, a skilled workman or a farmer; her average sister is a stenographer, a nurse or a clerk. Her average sources of average pleasure are picnics, amateur plays and basketball games. She goes to church; she washes dishes; she likes literary societies and the Y. W. C. A. Her average home has an automobile...
...votes of the present members of the House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure to win by a huge majority on the issue of whether the jobless workman should be deprived of his "dole" by the House of Loafers...