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Crammed with dull chatter and paced for obsequies rather than nuptials, And Be My Love is as much sleeping powder as play. Best served by it is Walter Hampden who, by playing an actor, can strut and attitudinize with glorious impunity...
...three-quarter -mile trip in a Velo taxi cost 300 francs. She took a member of the Consultative Assembly to a moderate-priced restaurant for lunch - 700 francs. Bought a plain white handkerchief to blow her nose in - 90 francs. Bought a weekly supply of cigarets, candy, toothbrush and powder- 25 francs. Bought a cheap diary to keep her dates in -200 francs. Dinner with wine at the Hotel Scribe (Army-operated - therefore inexpensive) 115 francs...
BRITISH COLUMBIA Joy Ride Raising the dust in barracks and powder rooms last week was a whispered warning: U.S. Coast Guard SPARS are unsafe on Canadian Navy tugs. Behind the warning was a somewhat Rabelaisian, Sunday-afternoon rowdedow in Vancouver Harbor...
...normal times, a sizable drop in gross meant a sizable drop in net. This is no longer true. Example: Hercules Powder Co. had its volume trimmed by "shifts in war production" so that its gross profit was cut by $7,910,000. But its tax bill dropped also, some $6,050,000. Thus, net profits were down only...
...compounds at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice, sweet potatoes, radish tops, "pigweed," fish powder; the beatings with hardwood sticks; their friends who had died...