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...Congressional Committees engaged in formulating legislation of significance. "Ten thousand dollars unviolated looks handsome. The Congressional tengrands get badly nicked. The most appalling item is the slice torn off for campaign expenses. Then come the tickets for balls and kindred entertainments. . . . Congressmen are considered easy marks and their names grace many a list of angels, honored by the company of America's leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before...
...left him, she got a job at $8 a week singing in sawdust floored saloons. From that point her story is merely the brief, trite, magnificent U. S. epic of success. Someone who watched her dancing detected a charm that had nothing in common with Pavlova's grace, or with the sweeping symmetry of Isadora Duncan, or with the stereotyped but enticing flections practised now on musical comedy stages by the Duncan Sisters. When Mariana Michelsky sang her songs in the honkytonks, the cheap sports stopped talking and stared at her with the impudence fading out of their faces...
...grace and attractiveness of desk sets added this autumn to the holiday madness through which fountain pen manufacturers pass at the end of each year. For some reason the retail sellers of the pens & pencils always underestimate their holiday trade. Stocks run low; telegrams and long distance telephone talks beg for shipments...
Only the briefest reports from Massachusetts lookouts had told of the plane's earliest progress. The Dawn's regular radio set had evidently expired shortly after starting. The landing field at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, lay white with Christmas snow uncut by the Dawn's landing wheels...
...many U. S. advertising clubs had already done, the New York Advertising Club last week examined advertisements written by local pastors to explain "What the Church Has to Offer Men." The prize advertisement, written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan: "Without ideals, life is mean- "Without a purpose, it is flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured...