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...exacting requirements, would probably be attracted to a new dilettante paradise; expensive suites would be permanently filled and financial worries ended. But the exclusion of men in lower scholastic groups from the tutorial system constitutes a serious objection to the proposal. These students, although some are unquestionably a fatiguing bore to tutors, benefit occasionally more than any others from contact with men who are trying to stimulate their intellectual interests. To deny them so valuable an influence would be to disregard one of the fundamental purpose of the tutorial system...
...unepiscopal relations - †"Been barred from two London restaurants for accosting waitresses - "Embraced Betty Beach, an actress, while she was clad only in her nightie - "Taken Rose Ellis on a trip to Paris." Each of these points was taken up by the Bishop's prosecutor, a gentleman who bore the high chivalric names of Charlemagne's champions: Roland & Oliver. Only two women were in court: the rector's wife, who sat among the witnesses, and a dark mysterious woman in scarlet who sat in the balcony, never spoke, fascinated the gentlemen of the Press. White-haired...
...Drably uniformed workmen hopped about automatically, rebelliously, before a stock ticker largely labeled. A gasoline filling station, two bathtubs and a ventilator took part in this materialistic orgy. For the finale a bland, fat-faced Mexican sun descended to blot out the noxious stock ticker, a sun whose face bore a flattering likeness to Painter Rivera's. For this triumphant scene the noisy music was at its noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having allowed his tropical dancers a comparatively pleasant tango. A cultural renaissance is having its start in obsidian...
...Collalto, key position of the battle front, is held by Austrian troops. The Italians capture the Austrian town at the base of the mountain, but their many attacks upon and bombardments of the peak are futile. Without its capture they are powerless to advance. In desperation they undertake to bore under the peak to dynamite it. The defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native...
...During the House debate, proponents of the Sales Tax did their best in its defense. But their words lacked fervor and conviction. They explained how, broadening the Federal tax base, it bore on all equally, how it did not discriminate like an excise tax among industries, how it could be easily collected and. above all, how it would bring in enough money to balance the Budget. They also argued that the tax would be absorbed by competing manufacturers and middlemen, would not be actually felt by consumers...