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Presidents pair only with Premiers. Foreign Ministers, one rung down the diplomatic ladder, pair off with Secretaries of State. When Britain's MacDonald and France's Laval visited the White House, it was President Hoover who joined each in a public statement of thing accomplished. Last week it was Secretary of State Stimson's part to collaborate with Dino Grandi in the above summary of the Italian Foreign Minister's three-day round of Capital conversations...
...Wednesday and Thursday, December 9 and 10, at the Peabody Theater, Boston, is a light modern comedy in four acts, and deals with the trials and complications that a young married couple encounter in Paris society. The drama which was written by de Flers and de Caillevet, a pair of French comedy playwrights, and was crowned by the French Academy, was recommended to the Cercle by Professor Andre Morize, and is being coached by W. D. Cowen...
...Speakership, began to talk about "co- operation" between the parties in the next House "for the good of the country." The final result, however, depended on two imponderables: i) possible deaths in the next three weeks; 2) absent members whose vote could not be cancelled out with a "pair...
Captain Christopher Columbus peered through the South American underbrush and was astonished to see a pair of natives bouncing a rubber ball. Three centuries later Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley could make his erasures with a new-fangled device called a rubber. Two generations after that a Mr. Farris was collecting rubber seeds from Brazil to plant in Ceylon, East India and Polynesia, and Chemist Greville Williams had just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find...
...children it is exciting fun. To the revelers it is an opportunity to repeat all the nice things Rudyard Kipling has been saying during the past 25 years about British Pluck. To the lovers it means discovery and ruin. To the porky pair, the male member of which shuffles about in that funniest of theatrical garments, the nightshirt, it is just the sort of nuisance one would expect the French to brew. To the novelist it is death...