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...Tuesday he had next to nothing to say. This seemed too bad in view of the fact that there was present an unusual number of foreign correspondents, especially British-arrived in Washington to watch what Congress does about the Kellogg Treaty and the cruiser-building bill, and to get background for the inauguration of the Hoover regime. President Coolidge took the opportunity to explain to the foreigners that the reason he has the U. S. embassies abroad hand out copies of his speeches-such as the Armistice Day announcement about naval construction, foreign debts and the U. S. share...
...Friends of Mrs. Hoover last week smiled at a picture of her published in the London Illustrated News. The caption said: "It is reported that 'I want to be a background for Bertie' is Mrs. Herbert Hoover's chief ambition ... A possible musical refrain, 'I want to be a background for Bertie...
Specialty features this week are rather pleasant. Clark and McCullough, the sere and tested vandeville team, are largely responsible for it with their movietone comedy. The Publix arrangement "Topsy Turvy Town" is also a harmless show presented against a futuristic background. The left end from "Good News", if we remember the face does some clever hoofing in front of the ponies. This part of the performance is above the average...
...clock in room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory. A lecture of this sort while based on accurate scientific investigation is not likely to involve discursions into higher mathematics or other indispensable technical equipment strange to the average undergraduate. Added to the relative simplicity of the scientific background necessary for the comprehension of a lecture of this sort, the wide general interest of a phenomenon which everyone has witnessed should make it attractive to many who do not feel the necessity of leaving Cambridge immediately after a last class...
...forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...