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...custom of Mishloach Monos (gifts to friends and to the poor) introduced a messenger called the Shalach Monos Tregger who carries the gifts from house to house. Today many a Jewish family celebrates Purim by giving a jolly party, eating Haman Taschen (poppyseed cakes) and reading the Megillath (scroll) of Esther. Children like it because whenever the name of Haman is mentioned they may drown it out by shouting, stamping their feet, whistling and whirling a noisy rattle...
Awarded. To Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson, 69, progressive educator, principal of Philadelphia's Southern High School for girls: the Philadelphia award for conspicuous civil service (scroll, medal, $10,000). She is the first woman recipient since the award was founded in 1921 by the late Edward...
...night of Repeal, now many months heralded by brassy clarion sounds and the low moans of boot-leggers, is the finish of a flaming column in the scroll of American delusion. Presumably, it ushers in a day of betterment: there will come the fall of the beer baron and rum runner; the stomachal conditions of the ailing members of every University in the country will be improved; revenue will come to the government, and wine to the table; and finally, the course of a few generations may see the people of the nation taught to appreciate fine liquors...
...Rhodesmen to Edward of Wales, remembered them all. Lady Wylie always presided at tea, had every Scholar to dinner once a year. Sir Francis, wise and tactful, was knighted in 1929 for his Rhodes work. In 1931 the current crop of Rhodesmen gave the Wylies a silver salver, a scroll, a dining room suite...
...Club and the Mothers' Club of Baltimore's First Methodist Episcopal Church last week had their annual meeting in Lovely Lane Hall, had as their guest of honor Col. Louis McHenry Howe, President Roosevelt's personal friend and secretary, gave him a scroll acclaiming "The Finest Friendship in America." Excerpt: "Friendship is the fairest and sweetest flower that blooms in the garden of life...