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...where many a peer would think it extravagant to keep his castle as warm as that. In addition Mr. Duff Cooper promised to spend $200,000 yearly on the unprecedented innovation of hiring British civilians to do the "K. P." (kitchen police) duties every soldier has always had to perform, and hated-such as peeling potatoes, scrubbing floors, picking up cigaret stubs, shining boots...
...York World-Telegram, was able to make it known, in a fitting cinematic denouement to Heloise's adventures, that "it is only by chance that today the management of the Hollywood Restaurant . . . announced that Heloise Martin is coming back. There, as before, Miss Martin will toe-tap, perform in the chorus line and dance a number with a jumping rope. . . . Honest, we didn't think it would turn out this...
...held that those States' anti-price-cutting laws were not in conflict with the U. S. Constitution (TIME, Dec. 21). Since the Feld-Crawford Act was for all intents & purposes identical with these fair trade laws, New York's Court of Appeals could do nothing but gracefully perform a judicial flipflop. Last week...
Such reviews cannot drive tutoring schools to the wall, for they will not "spot" questions or feed students strained pap. That is not their purpose. But they can, if properly organized, perform an important and legitimate function--one sometimes provided by tutoring schools--that of crystallizing knowledge and remedying some of the notorious defects of Harvard's course instruction...
...impoverished families could eat together en famille, became known as "The Lady Bountiful of Hell's Kitchen." It is also immaterial to Bolsheviks that the American Flag Association, impressed by Mrs. Davies' vigor in helping its drive against U. S. crime, asked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to perform the act of dubbing her "The Lady of the Flag." Nor do the Russians care that Ambassador Davies was born so poor he had to help pay his way through the University of Wisconsin Law School by working as a physical instructor. The Bolsheviks seemed to like Ambassador & Mrs. Davies...