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...Record: "We suggest that the News [undergraduate daily] interview the foreman in charge of Unit A to get some enlightening and authentic information on the House Plan. . . . The purpose of the House Plan being to make people chummy, we suggest that the new quadrangles be furnished with everything in pairs: wash basins facing each other, adjoining showers, twin beds, and the like. Under the new regime, the roommates best fitted for a Yale House will be a pair of Siamese Twins...
Quietly but momentously the Lords had defied the Commons. So grave was the situation that a hasty night session of the Cabinet was called by Scot MacDonald and a pair of exciting rumors flew: first that the Prime Minister, like Asquith in 1911, would bring the Lords to heel by threatening to advise the King* to create enough new peers to override the votes of the present members of the House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure...
...meet February 24 and the subsequent I. C. 4A. games. Oscar Sutermeister '32, in his first intercollegiate competition as a University pole-vaulter, tied Fred Sturdy for first place at 13 feet, 4 inches. The ex-Yale luminary cleared 13 feet, 7 inches when the pair vaulted off for the supremacy. B. E. Estes '32 ran a game race in the gruelling two-mile run, which was won in 9 minutes, 36 seconds by Hagen, of Columbia, present intercollegiate champion...
...George's co-entertainers is Alyee Siemens a charming girl who like most of the feminine sex, devoutly believes in fortune telling. She has a sense of humor and a pair of dark eyes, however, which would make any such weakness seem an asset...
Propper specializes on high grade hosiery ("At all shops serving a discreet clientele") between $3 and $6 the pair. In 1929 its gross earnings were $691,127, gathered from some 130,000 dozen pairs of stockings. Propper stock is listed on the New York Curb. When it first appeared, President Leo Propper received a note daintily written on a small card, saying: "May your stock run as well as your stockings...