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Through all the rain and raw mist that swallowed Cambridge in one gulp last night an old comrade came slipping along in the mud all the way to Lowell House where the Vagabond lives in the construction shack. This true friend of Vagabondia brought good tidings of the morning's adventure...
...found nothing to inspire her until she read of the Mahatma's labor. Correspondence with him followed; in 1926 she went to India, cheerfully accepted the year's probation to which he subjected her. She slept on a splintered floor, cooked her own meagre food, spun her clothes from raw cotton. Having learned Hindu, taken a Hindu name, embraced the Hindu faith, she became tantamount to the Mahatma's private secretary, accompanied him on trips to the villages, supported his spindly frame when, though ill, he persisted in taking his ruminative walks. Madeleine Slade wished she too might have marched...
...Pigall, American Dancing and Folies Bergere. Of these the first two are comparatively high class, with champagne obligatory at $13 per pint or $23 the bottle; but at the last four mere "drinks" are obligatory at between $2 and $3 each, the hostesses gulping colored water and male visitors raw alcoholic abominations...
...point of view of manufacturing activity in the country the present tariff situation is decidedly deplorable. There is nothing worse for the manufacturer than indecision on anything which might have to do with his cost of production. This is particularly true with reference to long time commitments on raw materials. Many businesses are greatly affected by even small changes in the tariff. As a matter of fact, further than that, certain companies can be absolutely disrupted because of a change in tariff...
...prophecy alone did Critic Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...