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...query, "If extra-curricular activity does interfere, which do you think it better to curtail, (activity or scholastic work)?" only 31 percent thought that studies should take the rap, while 69 percent felt that studies came first...
...tooth: the signatories were to promise to "advise" with one another in case of violation. Last week the Conference bureau promised to discuss the U.S. draft next January and most statesmen bandied compliments with Wafter Wilson. Alone did Benito Mussolini's spokesman Marchese Meli-Lupidi Soranga rap out: "My Government may perhaps one day consider the question of control of armaments manufacture, but not before principles have been laid down in regard to quantitative and qualitative limitation of armaments...
...plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn. Tall, old Col. Ames this year had new stories to tell his guests about the curious cherry-red quail on his preserve (TIME, March 13, 1933), now recognized by the Department of Agriculture as a distinct species. Ever since 1909, when Manitoba Rap began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem...
...lady black-jack dealer, plays cards against a grown daughter who has been taught to think her mother dead. When the daughter (Margaret Lindsay) shoots Peggy's partner (Ricardo Cortez) to avoid paying her losses, Peggy is again on hand, ready to take what the cinema calls "the rap." Typical shot: handsome Kay Francis explaining to Margaret Lindsay that "I'm the best friend you ever...
...sitting quietly last evening staring into the crackling hickory fire which drove the fall chill from his chimney corner, and thinking how the barbarian shriek of fire-engines would soon dispel the peace of his chambers under Memorial's clock. Suddenly there came a knocking from the depths, rap, rap, rap, thrice it came, and the distant corner of the room, illuminated only by the firelight, glowed with a greenish phosphorescence. Startled, the Vagabond discerned a figure standing there, limned in the faint, emerald light. Its coat was of gabardine, its trousers of flannel, from its eyes came the pinkish...