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...splendor of British pageantry was relied on to silver-line the cloudy fact that at this session of Parliament the last measures to insure a gas mask for everyone in the United Kingdom are to be taken under direction of Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. This potent statesman who in recent years gave India her new Constitution then made "The Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both...
Banker Gates, who had danced for the Mask & Wig Club as an undergraduate at the U. of P. (Class of 1893) and gone on to become one of Philadelphia's richest men, became bored with private banking in 1930, resigned as a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. to seek "romance and high adventure" in running his old university, which he insisted on doing without pay. Soon he put Education on a business basis, balancing the budget by reducing expenses from $9,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, projecting a 15-year money-raising program to replace...
...faith in things unseen." The Star-Wagon makes at least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright Anderson's return to colloquial speech...
Spear fishing is bubbles of fun. One Sunday he donned a glass mask, grasped a slingshot affair with a two-foot spear as the missile, and paddled about the surface. Where he was swimming, the water was clear and the reefs inhabited by fish such as you see in Nassau through a glass bottom boat. The trick is to shoot the spear when you espy a large game. Unhappily, he mistook his right foot for an unfamiliar species the first time he shot, and he was reluctant to try again...
Newshawks from the "stupid" democracies also came in for their share of attack. At a press reception, smooth-faced Dr. Otto Dietrich, Nazi press chief, denounced freedom of the press in democracies as "a mask behind which . . . vultures hide their faces." U. S. correspondents smothered chuckles when the serious doctor declared that the duty of a New York journalist is to "tell lies and bow down in the temple of Mammon." Next day the U. S. correspondents facetiously organized the "Most Noble Order of Journalistic Vultures." Members, headed by a First Beak, will salute each other by placing thumbs behind...