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...realized from heavier taxes, drastic state economies and national lotteries, to be employed as a vast franc-stabilizing fund. 3) Exchange operations, especially the sale of Belgian francs to be supervised by the state and speculation discouraged. 4) White flour to be baked only with a large proportion of coarser grain products and the sale of nonessential foodstuffs and luxuries to be restricted...
...Coolidge thought the situation serious enough to give his own interpretation of the causes which forced the reduction in wages. He listed: 1) overexpansion of the woolen industry during the War, so that now, with Southern mills producing the coarser fabrics, and the finer ones being imported from abroad, the New England mills are in difficulties; 2) a change in fashions that made worsteds unpopular during the past season...
Even Thackeray, most generally known by the grave morality of Vanity Fair, did not seem to disdain a coarser style in his personal correspondence. There is a letter in the collection addressed to one Carmichael Smyth, giving the news of Thackeray's return to England. The author has illustrated it with a most unusual cartoon depicting a family lying in various stages of unconciousness about a parlor. He explained in the letter, that the scene is his idea of the reaction of Mr. Smyth's family to the unexpected news, and represents mother having hysterics, sister falling off the piano...
...male parts are only fair, and in one of them we find a jarring element; for the humor of Mr. Irving Brooks, when not machine-like, is a coarser element than should ordinarily be found in a production of so delicate finish...
...writer is not mistaken, that the most sacred of the old Harvard songs, revered alike for its antiquity and its associations, is sung and played only upon most solemn occasions or at moments of deepest feeling. We have a notion that by maintaining our hymn aloof from freer and coarser use, we render it cleaner and pleasanter as a remainder of the more inspiring aspects of University life...