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Lusty have been the wails of frustrated honors candidates who have sought entry to the bottomless caverns of Widener in search of the priceless riches entombed there. Stack privileges are so monopolized by instructors and graduate students that only a few of the coveted admission cards have trickled down to the mass of seniors. Thus the third estate remains unread...
...unfair" to good old "Snatch," his many ruling class friends have been influentially murmuring in London ever since, but an old imperial precedent is in favor of the foreign nation which is to blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME. Dec. 1, 1924). In the painful dilemma of 1937, Britain's Cabinet last week announced that the House of Commons will be asked to vote ?5,000 ($25,000) to "Snatch." Fully convalescent. Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen left Shanghai...
Last week "King George" once more loomed on the Nevada scene with a big stack of blue chips. He let it be known that he had regained control of Hotels Riverside and Golden and stood to make considerable on a new mine. When his personal crash came, "King George'' had found others as glad to grubstake him as he had always been to grubstake the down-&-out. State Senator Noble Getchell gave him a half interest in a low-grade surface mine near Winnemucca where they are now building a gold mill due to begin operations about...
...file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas." One of his German expressions, in fact, became a fixture of camp life. Private Bemelmans called his Oswego girl friend "Summer Sprouts," because that is the German phrase for freckles, of which she had a great many. She never outlived the nickname because...
Best-publicized firm of counselors is the ilbert & Sullivan Organization with offices in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Gilbert & Sullivan have produced no Pirates of Penzance but they have penned a number of pamphlet contributions to the growing stack of insurance criticism. David Gilbert is an oldtime insurance counselor who joined forces with James P. Sullivan last November. Mr. Sullivan was an actuary who had been examiner for Congressman Sabath's ubiquitous investigating committee. In general Gilbert & Sullivan believe that it is smarter to buy cheap renewable term insurance, which has little or no cash value and permits the policyholder...