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...modern dress. Even if you saw the Dramatic Club's effort last spring, take a chance on this, this is better. A bit overdone, but pleasant...
When the student is settled in his quarters he is ready to start that tremendous task of finding out what the Law School and a legal education is all about, and more particularly in getting a bit of advice on how to keep from being dropped at the end of the first year. To accomplish this ponderous task is the work of three years, but by way of a slight introduction the Law School Society holds a reception for first year men on the opening night of the Law School. That the first year men were even more anxious than...
...ambitious a bit of lobbying as was ever accomplished in Washington was effected last week by a tall, unique young man famed for his blond hair, loneliness and lack of ignoble motives. The actual lobbying, which usually consists in more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would...
...Ross, the woman whom Wyoming elected three years ago to fill out her deceased husband's term as Governor (1925-27). Mrs. Ross soon demonstrated her femininity. Down an aisle, terrified by the surrounding forest of North Carolina feet and ankles, scampered a mouse. "If I appear a bit disconcerted," shrilled Mrs. Ross, "It's because a woman may be a governor but she's always afraid of a mouse. If it comes up here I'm going to jump on the TABLE!" The mouse mounted. So did Mrs. Ross...
...matter of fact, the title is a little bit misleading. Victor McLaglen, who, in his ususal manner cuts an impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture...