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...commanding him to raise up seed to his brother. The purpose given by Paul in Chapter VII of the First Book of Corinthians for the institution of Christian marriage is to avoid promiscuity. Nothing whatever is said about procreation, therefore it certainly cannot be said to be the sole purpose of marriage. In fact, this conclusion is tacitly agreed upon by all sects of the Church when they bless marriages between people who are beyond the reproductive...
...room shanty was the birthplace of Ramsay Macdonald, and night school was his college; but he won through toil and newspaper scrivening to become Britain's first and sole Labor Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924). At that time, though his term of office was short, he became the first statesman in Europe to chairman the drafting of a negotiated agreement with post-War Germany. This was the London Settlement of Aug. 14, 1924, on the basis of which the Dawes Plan went into effect and France abandoned her ruthless occupation of the Ruhr...
...also brought, out in the report that attendance from ten of the 11 large New England preparatory schools is on the increase. The sole exception is Groton, which has recently shown a falling off in the number of its graduates attending the University...
...Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to President Coolidge for two years, requested a change to more active service. The President announced Col. Blanton Winship, World War veteran, sole unmarried survivor of the famed "Bachelors' Club" as his successor...
...such trivia was last week's news compiled. But newspaper publishers tremble to think now soon their vaunted circulations would fade away if there were no trivia to intrigue the eyes of gossip-hungry readers. And last week's trivia were the more remarkable in that the sole value lay in echoes. There were echoes of old scandal, old romance, of famed names. Or, perhaps, they were more like bones than echoes, musty bones dug up by the professional gravediggers of the press for the wayfaring reader, who might cry "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well...