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...Roosevelt's candidacy has given rise to a similar situation is not without basis. The abnormal crop of favorite sons, sometimes several in a single state, and most of them without the slightest hope of nomination, can have no other source. The formation of a coalition against Roosevelt would depend largely on the support of nominal leaders of the party, Smith and Rascob...
...with hunger-pinched babies, hollow-eyed youths, twitching old men, shamefaced Frauleins big with child -in all 1,000 utterly miserable people sat down in Vienna last week to the Third Annual Banquet of the Advisory Centre For Intending Suicides. Anyone consulting the Advisory Centre is promised and may depend upon: 1) "absolute secrecy" (not even the police will be told); 2) "absolute non-interference with the final decision" (no prospective suicide will be nagged, browbeaten or cajoled into remaining alive). During the hearty banquet last week leading Viennese stage folk (not all of them comedians) did their best...
...usually less bright than the rest of the brood. He also behaves worse. But if the next child is of opposite sex, the second child stimulates and regulates the first. A child six or more years the junior of a brother or sister is generally dull. Intelligence and vigor depend on the social activity within a household and upon the heredity. Apparently it does not matter whether a couple is young or old to have intelligent offspring...
...Wider streets must not be accompanied by higher buildings, for all traffic improvements will depend on the zoning of buildings" reads a report recently submitted to the Harvard Engineering School and the Albert Russel Erskine Traffic Research Bureau, by three students, H. F. Hammond, L. E. McClintock, and D. G. Mickie. After visiting 15 cities, travelling on Sheldon Fellowships, they drew up a report of the information gathered with a view to formulating an ideal city planning scheme...
Skippy and Huckleberry Finn were far less profitable exhibitions than their producers intended them to be. Whether what are known, in the trade, as "kid pictures'' will continue to be made will therefore depend to some extent on the box office reception accorded Sooky which is handicapped by having no concern with sex or fear. Good shot: Skippy and Sooky securing a load of fuel for Sooky's mother by molesting the fireman on a train so that he throws lumps of coal at them...