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...Gimo had a list of specific changes demanded by the new austerity: fewer passenger cars and more buses; fewer attendants and servants for public officials; less meat, tobacco, wine, candies and superstitious use of joss paper; cheaper weddings, funerals and gifts on holidays; a boycott of dance halls and gambling; heavy taxes on luxuries; severe penalties for government offices which steal water...
Come to me as joss paper...
...Yale led, going into the heavyweight bout 14-11, and Harvard needed a fall to win and a decision would draw the meet. In what was easily the feature bout of the night, Pickett of Yale threw Glendinning of Harvard in 4:32 for the Crimson grapplers' first joss in Dual competition. Winners for Harvard were Captain Brooks Cavin who won by a fall in 8:10, Lorrin Woodman who won an overtime bout from Cutler of Yale and John Harkness, who completed his second undefeated season by taking a decision from Clark of Yale...
...four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life and die in a moire silk dressing gown at the foot of a joss-house idol...
...Woman. If posterity understands present-day art. it is likely that the future will have a pretty good idea what Gertrude Stein looked like. Picasso has painted her, Picabia has drawn her. Jo Davidson has done a joss-like statue of her. Never a beauty, she is now massive, middleaged, 59, would strongly resemble a fat Jewish hausfrau were it not for her close-cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain...