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...Earnings for their first 1930 quarter were $2,164,348, compared to $4,531,218 in 1929. The decrease was attributed to the cost of preparing the new blade and razor. Jubilant none the less sounded Gillette though, as nearly everybody knew, there was a butterfly in its ointment...
...Money alone will not win self-government. If money could win, I should have obtained it long ago. What is required, therefore, is your blood." When he arrived at Nadiad, Mr. Gandhi sank to the ground, had to have cold compresses applied to his head, his legs swabbed with ointment, before he could proceed. At Anand he announced he would rest for a day and, following his one-day-a-week-silent rule, would say no word to anyone. Newsgatherers reported they did not believe the emaciated saint would be physically able to go much farther, waited...
Lolly. Two flies, one mechanical and one temperamental, have long been present in the ointment of fashionable Manhattan theatre-goers. Mechanically, it is impossible to dine at 8 o'clock and see the first act of any play. Temperamentally, it is annoying not to know in advance whether the play will be sad or amusing, a problem or a diversion...
Notwithstanding a University decree prohibiting distribution of pamphlets in the Yard, and in spite of Cambridge statutes forbidding the free distribution of printed matter, the Socialist Club, undaunted, promises to put a fly-leaf in the local ointment on Friday. It is a pamphlet entitled "Welcome to Macdonald" and deals with the history of the English Labor party...
...more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that the most recent Oxford news doesn't prove much, critics may cherish it for occasions when the ointment of glorification is spread a bit too thick...