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...diploma bore the signatures of all the members of the present P. B. H. committee and also those of all past graduate secretaries since the association's founding...
Proudest father in Washington's official family is Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, a bachelor until four years ago. Proudest mother is Secretary Woodring's pretty young wife, Helen Coolidge Woodring, daughter of Massachusetts' ex-Sena-tor Marcus Allen Coolidge, who bore him their third child last February. Last week proud Father Woodring requested every officer and enlisted man in the U. S. Army and every member of the Civilian Conservation Corps to write a letter to his mother on Mother...
...brought two children, both with broken bones, horrible burns. Seated in a bonfire of debris, one man dazedly slapped at his burning clothes. Gobs doused him with sand, yanked him away. A Hindenburg steward named Kubis courageously ran back into his ship to save the metal money box. He bore it proudly to his officers. But all the bills within had charred to ashes. Also lost was a valuable 340-lb. cargo of which the chief known items were photo-graphs and newsreel films. Of 240 Ib. of mail, only 200 charred letters were saved...
...Wilmington, N. C. last August, Mrs. Annie Mae Gannon's cat littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with...
...habit to which I am addicted." Said Dean Joseph F. Sullivan of Jesuit Holy Cross: "If you are to behold his monument, look about you." At this point Dr. Neilson bobbed up to remark: "Many of you have been my friends for years but I never before realized you bore such a good opinion...