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...Kindly explain what you mean by a "pair" referring to p. 13, Nov. 16 issue where you speak of absent Congressmen whose vote can be canceled out therewith...
...Cheat (Paramount). Pictures like this seem to explain the financial discomforts to which every cinema concern except Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is now subject. After fetching talented, exciting, polished Tallulah Bankhead home from the London stage with the intention of making her a picture star, Paramount has introduced her to U. S. cinemaddicts with three of the dustiest vehicles of the year. Tarnished Lady was claptrap about a girl who married for money and later regretted it. My Sin was a routine rigmarole about a lady who tried to conceal a Central American past in a Manhattan...
...bench listening to witnesses tell how they had arrested Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, President Hoover's brother-in-law, last month as he emerged from a grocery store carrying a gunny sack loaded with 19 pints of whiskey (TIME, Nov. 23). Then Judge Spencer heard Mr. Leavitt explain how he had been taking a drink in the rear of the store* when somebody put the sack in his hand, asked him to get rid of it; how he did not know its contents; how he walked out the back door into the arms of Federal agents. Declared Judge Spencer...
Poet & Painter Cummings is a good looking, unassuming, generally dishevelled young man who hates functions, celebrities and talking about his own work. His interpreters explain that he does not write poems in the ordinary sense but "calligrams," poems which are at the same time cryptograms to be unravelled, and visual designs on the printed page. Thus a poem about a grasshopper will appear...
...specializes to any extent in Chemistry should miss this course, although at times one seems to hear of nothing but the composition of the skate's blood and like subjects. The course is being presented this year by Professor Henderson, who is well qualified to explain the mysteries of biological chemistry. Chemistry 15 is required for premedical students, and makes a very good half-course for any man who does not care for laboratory work with his chemistry. Many important biological and physiological facts are explained from the chemical point of view, including the passage of a piece of steak...