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...regard to their habits and physical appearance, he says that the Lapps like to sit around and exchange stories, that they are not particularly active, and are none too fond of water used externally. A great deal of the manual labor is done by the women of the country. Lapps, like most primitive peoples, are fond of smoking and drinking. As for their physical ailments, they are susceptible to such diseases as tuberculosis, and social diseases are extremely prevalent among them...
...results are more than worth the labor. Occasionally, the often dreary monotony of going through these letters is broken by some amusing bit of information. One parent wrote: My boy has two good habits, smoking and drinking; he does neither one." Another wrote: "My son is passionately fond of music and intends to enter the medical profession...
...since 1923, Mrs. Harding's since 1926. Baptist ritual was read. Then guardsmen of the Tenth Infantry took their posts and the Marionites went home, again full of love and admiration for the jovial, handsome man whom today's young men and women of Marion can remember as a fond patter of heads and chucker of chins when he was Marion's leading citizen, then Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, then a U. S. Senator and finally that incomprehensibly great man, the President of the United States...
...difficulty of the CRIMSON news competition has been well advertised. It has ben called the hardest of college competitions, and it probably is. At any rate, the editors take rather a pride in thinking so and saying so. The incipient candidate is deluded with no fond fairy tales; he is not told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his soul and body into a nine weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same, and is idiot enough to tell his roommates...
Mencken is a stocky Dutchman whose appearance suggests the beer-drinking of which he is notoriously fond. He is a polite man socially although certain vulgarisms which he permits himself in private have led to a contrary impression. His writing career began in his native town, on the Baltimore Sun, to the editorial staff of which he now belongs. With Mr. Nathan he rose to repute as one of the editors of the Smart Set, and to fame as the editor of the American Mercury which the two started in 1923. Two years ago he toured, in eccentric fashion, part...