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...level of the spiritual in adequacy which Mr. Eliot finds in modern society. It is here that the religious symbolism starts to pile on thickly, and, to those who don't know previously what Mr. Eliot is driving at, the speeches degenerate into a sort of rasping buzz that emanates from the stage. Actually, of course, this rasping buzz is Mr. Eliot, grinding his Anglo-Catholic axe and cleverly turning the institutions of modern society into arguments against themselves...
Playing the mid-field for the Yardlings will be Pete Palches. Tim Anderson, and Ed Brown, who all did creditable jobs against the varsity. Their play along with that of Buzz Smyth. John Law, and Dave Foster of the second mid-field, may well be the deciding factor this year...
When Mrs. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee, a granddaughter of J. P. Morgan, died of cancer last year at 46, Park Avenue gossips set up a buzz-buzz over her will. She had bequeathed her attorney, well-to-do Sol Rosenblatt, 51 (Harvardman, General Hugh Johnson's right-hand man in NRA, onetime counsel to the Democratic National Committee), the residuary estate of $200,000. To her favorite psychiatrist, Dr. Richard ("Darling Dick'') Hoffmann, 64, on whom many of the gossips would have bet, she left only an oil painting. Last week in a Manhattan court, Mrs. Satterlee...
...avoided tributes to Ducreux's wartime services and his promising political career? And, at the funeral, there was no honor guard, no wreath from the Assembly. Something was amiss, something which well-intentioned old Herriot had been at pains to conceal. After ten days of buzz-buzz in the corridors of the Assembly, Paris-Presse broke the story. Deputy Ducreux had not been Deputy Ducreux: his real name was Jacques Tacnet. Why had he changed his name...
...pilot was merely trying to get the boss's daughter to come out of the house so he could drop her a love letter? Euclides got mad. Fed up with all flat-hatters, he rushed from the barn. Next time the plane came round for a low, slow buzz, he swung his trusty leather laço-and lassoed the plane's propeller...