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...addition to the streamers and floating balloons, the enormous room, with its rich atmosphere, will be decorated with evergreens. Dark coats and white flannels or tuxedoes are the accepted mode of dress for the first year...
Contagion. Vincent's angina is highly contagious. Kissing seems to be the commonest mode of spread. Restaurants where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more...
...rector's behavior to his bishop. Counsel for the Defense, a Mr. Levy, quickly proved that Miss Harris had had promiscuous affairs with various men of assorted races and colors for several years, that Dr. Davidson had made various efforts to get her to change her mode of life, and once saved her from a lover who was trying to punch her face. "All right, all right," said Miss Harris, "but when he came to my room he didn't talk about religion. ... He wanted to show me his appendicitis scar." This unveiling was prefaced...
...Communists?including the Dictator?to a salary of $1,800 per year. In proposing to jack this up to $5,400 Mr. Stalin naturally had to act with caution. The change was only being "considered," ran the public announcement last week, but such public "consideration" is the Dictator's mode of feeling his way, is usually followed by action...
Like the cart before the horse, U. S. civilization seems to trundle awkwardly ahead of civilized Americans. Critic Brooks, who hopes and works for a different mode of progress, has shown in The Ordeal of Mark Twain and The Pilgrimage of Henry James, what happened to two horses who got in front of the cart. In his biography of Emerson he shows how a most inspirational civilizer hitched his own wagon, tried to hitch the U. S. juggernaut, to a transcendental star...