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...Ogilvie-Forbes was play-the bagpipes. He plays them, I understand, excellently. It always struck me that, if the Embassy should be attacked, our best defense would not be to gather in the hall, but to wait until Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes marched downstairs playing The Flowers of the Forest. It would have appealed overwhelmingly to a Spaniard's sense of curiosity, even if it did not scare him out of his wits...
...Husband's Secretary" is just what you would expect it to be except that at one point someone though it would be a good idea to liven up the proceedings with a good roaring forest fire...
Hugo Leichtentritt '94, lecturer on Music, will give a free public lecture, with musical illustrations, on "Idyl, Elegy, and Landscape Painting, the Music of the Birds, the Brook, the Winds, the Forest, in Madrigal, Opera, Cantata, Instrumental Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries", tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Music Building...
Stark and silent stood the forest of derricks whose clanking activity built New London and London only a few years ago. Eleven of them stood on the school's grounds. The royalties they brought furnished most of the $1,000,000 which transformed New London's old wooden schoolhouse into one of the finest rural educational plants in the U. S. Still intact were the model home economics kitchens, playgrounds, sewing rooms, laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School...
...efforts had been worth while. Egged on by his eloquence, they now ratified a national Federation constitution, elected him president with a roar, planned an aggressive national crusade to convince the country's legislators of wildlife conservation's important place in the national picture of land utilization, forest preservation, water purification, erosion and flood control. This year will be devoted largely to propaganda and fundraising, climaxed by a Wildlife Restoration Week beginning Feb. 20, 1938. After that Congress can expect a high-powered Conservation Lobby to settle down in Washington beside Labor, the Farmers and the American Legion...