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...American Construction Council surveys the entire industry. And gradually it is evolving a code of construction ethics, so that eventually the plumber will cease to be the classic example of robbery-within-the-law. Simultaneously, the Council is educating the 99,000,000 people who are not constructors or constructor's wives. In normal times it teaches them, for instance, when to build, when not to. Apartments and office buildings must be built according to renting seasons which for the first is October, and for the second, February. But public buildings, private houses, industrial plants should be built...
...International Lawn Tennis Federation. The latter organization is now the governing body of tennis throughout the world. Virtually every country where the game is played, holds membership. The international rules and regulations of tennis, recently revised and adopted by the International Federation will within a short time be the code in use throughout the world. Thus tennis becomes one of the few games in which the rules are absolutely the same, whether played in South Africa, Russia, Argentine, England, or the United States...
...modest at his intrigue. Magnificent acting, to be sure, but more than that?Sheridan. For Value Received, as might be expected from its title, deals with the familiar woman who pays for what is generally referred to in such drama as "breaking the rules of a man-made social code." She has a splendid opportunity to knock the present social system and Men with a capital M for a row of rhetorical rockets. All of which, with subsidiary complications, well played by a competent cast, should furnish sufficient entertainment for the theatre goer who prefers to see his drama proceed...
...American backwoods developed men with plenty of red-blooded fighting spirit, but unfortunately furnished them with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man who was not a coward was considered equal to his neighbor, there was no discounting an insult because of the stupidity or lack of breeding in the man responsible for it. An earlier and more polished society which recognized the duelling code distinguished between affronts coming from a "gentleman", and those arising...
...cast follows: Baptist Minister, W. D. Dunkel 1G. Mob, Thirty Persons Helen Neely, Miss Maryalice Secoy Dan, G. H. Code '18 Mr. Jordan, Harold Bates Bailey, R. P. Bond 2G. Sorrell, M. T. Herrick 1G. Old Sorrell, E. P. Goodnow '17 Uncle Amos, Stewart Master Rutledge, C. A. Rollins 1G. Lee, H. C. Lodge Jr. '24 Mr. McIntyre, R. S. Aldrich '25 Johnson, R. T. Bushnell '19 Hutchings, E. P. Goodnow '17 Gov. Carr, L. M. Pearson 2G. Bull, W. E. Stilwell '25 Doggy, P. F. Holmes '24 Mary Todd, Miss Dorothy Googins Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Angela Morris Annie, Miss...