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...next his skin) to which he secures his large ("dollar") watch by a large ("baby's") safety pin. In England St. Gandhi wears a second and often a third shawl. The three cover him tentwise when he sits crosslegged, showing only his big toes, small hands and birdlike poll topped with stiff black & white hairs clipped to a length...
Under the leadership of the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, a National Student Poll on Disarmament will be conducted until December 15 by every college in the United States for the purpose of getting a nation-wide tabulation of student opinion on the question. The college newspapers, Christian Associations, International Relations Clubs, Liberal Clubs, or any other local groups may combine in whatever type of organization seems most desirable to those interested in promoting and conducting the preparatory discussions and the voting...
...best cinema directors of 1930-1931, as selected by Film Daily's poll of 300 U. S. cinema critics...
...Willa Cather's Northeast passages are never purple. Captious critics might complain that she sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When Pierre had made a landing and tied his boat, they went up the path to the smith's house, to find the family at dinner. They were warmly received and seated at the dinnertable. The smith had no son, but four little girls. After dinner Cécile...
After years of door-bell-pulling and poll-watching, he ran for Congress in 1912, surprised his family not a bit by being roundly beaten. Two years later, however, he did get himself elected to the New York State Senate, served two terms. He was with the A. E. F. as a captain. The Harding landslide of 1920 carried him into a seat in Congress from Manhattan's "blue stocking" district (upper Fifth and Park Avenues, the seat now held by Oil Widow Ruth Pratt...