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...small Bethlehem, jammed with tourists last week, the U. S. chaplain of Jerusalem's Collegiate Church of St. George touched a button which set ringing the bells of St. Thomas and Old Trinity in Manhattan. A great radio audience listened, feeling that this was properly Christmassy...
...Full-bodied, he has slender legs and phenomenally small feet. His face is round and soft, yet handsome. On his wavy black hair, worn longish, he pulls down an oldfashioned, broad-brimmed black felt hat. His clothes are dark and a trifle tight. Black bow ties cover his collar button. An instinctive politician, he has a ready smile, a friendly chuckle, hosts of one-name friends. He is a Knight of Pythias, Son of the American Revolution, Methodist Episcopalian (South), all in good standing. He smokes cigars, chews gum and tobacco...
...least a dozen people have asked me if I had heard this story. I have and it is utterly untrue. Members of the Morrow family assure me that the child is a perfectly normal baby, running about and as bright as a button, a cunning little rascal who hears perfectly and says just about as many words as any baby of seventeen months may be expected to say. . . . The parents naturally have tried to keep the youngster out of the newspapers. . . . I have heard stories of nurses of the Lindbergh baby fleeing from cameras when the infant...
...been publishing less & less news of Society, more & more pungent comment on politics. Last fortnight The Washingtonian definitely abandoned its conservatism, came out as a magazine "which pokes pins into almost everything and everybody in town," began its pinsticking with a cover caricature of a button-nosed Herbert Hoover in red-white-&-blue...
Long years ago our fathers in the pride of their youth set out to build up a Radcliffe tradition. She had chestnut hair, in long braids; she had large, low heeled, button shoes; she had cotton stockings. She wandered into the library like the witch of Endor and enquired if the lost volume of Kant had been returned. She raised Christian eye brows when a student said, "Hell." She peered through thick glasses and talked through a shiny nose. A thoroughly unattractive figure...