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...baccalaureate sermon of June, 1921. But I can recall a good deal of the sermon at chapel on class day morning. Some notable divine was supposed to give it, but he had a call elsewhere or something, and the saintly George Herbert Palmer, already professor emeritus for several years, pinch hit for him. Most of us knew him only as the author of some required freshman reading. "Self-Cultivation in English," and we were faintly disappointed...
...towns. Yet they keep on the job. Next month, with the evangelical season about over, most of them will congregate in Winona Lake, Ind. for their annual meeting. Lou Hill will be there. No shouter, no chair-smasher, he has considerable reputation. On the Winona Lake platform he will pinch-hit for the most famed evangelist of them all, old-time Billy Sunday...
...snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do 20 mi. to a gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian charges shows her efficient even in love. Manhattan Taxi-driver Ernie calls...
...proceedings. Any and all problems confronting this burly man are promptly solved by the sex equation. Thus it is that he perceives, before anyone else, that while Sister Lois is about to get a man, Sister Eva (Fay Bainter) desperately needs one. Since her sweetheart was killed in Flanders, pinch-faced Eva has been told off to nurse her War-blinded brother and end her days in suppressed spinsterhood. Eva might have escaped her fate had not her last chance, an ex-naval officer, shot himself when his garage business failed...
Came the Depression. North Carolina Bank & Trust felt the pinch, closed down to a restricted basis even before the bank holiday. Last week a white paper was stuck on the walls of the bank's Textile Branch...