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...Pensions of $15 a month for all widows and orphans of the World War-a brand new proposal which was not law even in the lush pension days of Coolidge and Hoover...
...Marx brothers' latest film is laid in Freedonia; the scene, of course, is unimportant; it seems to present the usual number of opportunities for the Marx brand of apoplectic humour, and not much more need be said of it. There may be a few who do not like Groucho and his cohorts; the large majority will proceed to the University sometime during the week, with their risibilities filed to a fine edge, and sit straining rib muscles for an hour or so; the only advice to be given is, to go early and avoid the rush...
...excitement incident to Repeal, everyone has neglected one time-tried branch of home industry, to wit, the moonshine trade; the rugged enthusiast in the bathtub, alone, of all the people, has seen the light. The solution of our ills is to encourage the moonshiner, the mountaineer, and his bootleg brand; he should be allowed to issue his product under a special tax, microscopic in dimensions, and should be praised for his simple, homespun way of living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand...
Playing its first league game of the season, the Crimson ice forces will meet a veteran Princeton sextet at Princeton tomorrow night. Although to date the Tigers have displayed a brand of hockey superior to Harvard's, the great improvement of the team as a whole, evident in the contest with B.U. last Wednesday, would seem to indicate that tomorrow's encounter will find the Crimson stickmen more eager and ready to do business than it has been so far this season...
...vein of mystery and creeping things, granted that you have a liking for a dash of the thrilling with a preference for locality, try Brand's "Death in a Forest" (Kendall, $2.00), which takes you into Central America, or T. Lund's "Robbery at Portage Bend" (Kendall, $2.00) a story of the icebound North and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police. If your taste is less primeval "The Murder of a Banker" (Knopf. $2.00) by J. S. Fletcher should prove diverting...