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Headline personalities are made all the time. Just recently an army officer made himself into that very thing by contending that "the air's the thing." Having reached into the headlines some months ago, he reached into them again when the Shenandoah fell and inscribed the name of ."Mitchell" in bold black letters, coupling it with a fierce denunciation of incompetence in Army and Navy administration of their air forces...
...bringing home for ratification merely a stop-gap debt settlement (see Page 5, THE CABINET) wrought one effect expressible in figures. On the Paris Bourse itself, in spite of the French Government's placing buying orders for 40,000,000 francs, the exchange value of the franc fell from 4.75c per franc...
...Christ the Common Denominator," and became an active (soapbox preaching) part of the Great Purpose. Nothing is made very clear, except that Simon's two brothers ("Old Niggs" and "Old Charles") were unhappy and he was kind to them. The wife of one was ravishing but gambled and fell ill with smallpox. The wife of the other wanted to run off with a doctor but stopped when Simon notified her that "Old Charles" had cleared her way by blowing his own head...
...hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with his name...
...first founded as adjuncts to the Church, now stand alone, with the Church exercising only a slight shadow of its former influence over the lives of men. This situation requires that Universities readjust themselves to the needs of the times and accept the full burden of that which formerly fell upon them only in part--of preparing men to live. To accomplish this readjustment at Harvard the best thought of the best minds, must be devoted to a careful study of the problem. If the students, through their official spokesmen, the Student Council, can aid by presenting their point...