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...said "Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child and the child a chance to eat and digest the daily pot-au-feu, broth with huge chunks of sour Parisian bread. A strong minority voted to continue the present system. Thirty thousand families did not vote at all. Teachers became alarmed lest they should be required to work more than their statutory six hours a day. There were present...
...however, they can turn their attention toward remedying an evil which has just been exposed by another convention, one in which the P. E. N. should have a very acute interest. The newly launched crusade of the American Booksellers Association against the continued publication in enormous numbers of the "pot-boiler" type of novel will have the enthusiastic support of anyone who was tried to pick out a week-end book while trying to catch the last train out of town. Even though a part of the booksellers' protest may be answered with the statement that the tremendous in crease...
...should be a better cook than a politician? He or she, gets his living on delicacies compounded from the melting pot. But on the other hand who would expect a politician to write a cook book? He, or she, gets his living by keeping his recipes to himself...
Georges Theunis, Jack-in-the-box Premier (TIME, March 10, 17) proceeded recently to work up a favorable atmosphere by the time-honored political expedient known as "sweetening the pot." The employees and functionaries of the Kingdom of Belgium received increases in salaries. M. Theunis announced last week in a speech on budget economy that only one employee had refused an increase. That man's name is Albert, his official title is "King of the Belgians" and his civil list (royal salary) is 3,300,000 francs. The announcement was greeted with cheers from the Liberal and Clerical party...
...where the morning's stew?" if they have subsidied and congealed completely it will be indeed discouraging. But it is safe to believe that they will not. Not improbably there will remain underneath a small fire which will keep the pot bubbling, and which blown to fierce flames by the next winter monsoon, will have the whole congenial mess at a pleasant boiling-point ready for the appropriate seasoning of a very experienced chef...