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...mansion. He owns no automobile. His one diversion: watching baseball games. He is outside Washington's smart society. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: an oratorical genius, an eccentric, no great legislator. An oldtime politician whose personal magnetism has overridden his legislative deficiencies, brought him, colorful, to a drab modern Congress. He bolted, bated Democratic supporters of Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, stumped for President Hoover, but did not vote for him. This year regular Alabama Democrats barred him from their primary. "Jeffersonian (anti-Smith) Democrats" nomi- nated him to succeed himself on an independent ticket...
...butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find specimens for him. Some of the rarest are worth $20,000 a piece. Most of these are drab, colorless. The brilliant butterflies are common...
...suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared his son Adrian: "There is no question that my father will speak to us just as he did before...
Norma Shearer in her latest opus now playing at the University adds another quite substantial rung to her ladder of success. Her acting and other natural endowments add considerable to a plot that is slightly drab to speak mildly. What is more, she is one of the few women who is able to wear a hat as if it were an ornament rather than a necessary excrescence, and the remainder of her attire is correspondingly satisfactory. The major point is, however, that she plays her part as if she were an actress and not a model...
...view of the present system by which a student coming from a good preparatory school is submitted to men of distinctly inferior ability to those who taught him before coming to college. The usual conception of a college education as an intellectual stimulus is completely shattered by this drab practice. It is probably true that the man just out of secondary school is not sufficiently mature to cope with instruction as it is presented to the upper classes; but it is true that upon entering college he must be made to realize the change in educational atmosphere that college presents...