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...upperclass London this tag now designates Lieut. Colonel the Right Honorable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Bart., of No. 18 Cadogan Gardens; and a very short search at the Foreign Office would discover "The Man Who Was Wrong" in upperclass eyes, Captain the Right Honorable Robert Anthony Eden, today His Majesty's Principal Secretary...
Blue Bedroom was planned "to give the effect of sleeping on a cloud"-a dark blue rug, fading blue walls, light blue ceiling, plenty of mirrors. Bachelor's Bedroom, to "appeal to a bachelor in search of a bedroom," was painfully ugly, notably in an iron bed "amusingly decorated in red and white bed ticking." "Drama" came from a crimson carpet. The firm's explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue...
...parlance of boxing, a Negro contender for the heavyweight championship, when this is held by a white, is a "black menace." When a black menace becomes champion, search starts for a "white hope." Boxing experts have been so sure that the current black menace-Joe Louis of Detroit-will win the heavyweight championship as soon as he fights the current holder, James J. Braddock, that talk about a white hope started prematurely as early as last autumn. Thus far no white hope has appeared, but last week it became apparent that if, after first disposing of Max Schmeling on June...
...speakers practically unknown to their classmates, and the general tone that of a stilted secondary school valedictory address. The situation this year is peculiarly grim. The undergraduate chosen from the competition to deliver the annual address is unable to be at the exercises leaving the Commencement officials to search about for a budding Demosthenes...
...females seem to have no auditory organ whatever. It is possible, however, that as snakes perceive the vibrations of sound with their tongues, the female cicada may feel the shrill song of the male with her antennae or some other organ. To clarify this situation a program of re-search was last week reported to be on foot at the University of Maryland. The call of the male will be transmitted by microphone to a loudspeaker in another room. The female will be placed in front of the loudspeaker, while...