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Copper and slate will be used to cover the spire, and scrolls and figures in harmony with the staid Colonial architecture will be used in decoration. A large wind-vane, erroneously called a weather vane, will be cut from copper to cap to Chapel...
...political character better than Walter Lippmann, former editor of the old Independent New York World, now a free-handed political colyumist for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Commenting last week on the fact that the Governor's message won the praise of such divergent elements as the staid New York Times and Montana's wild and unstable Senator Wheeler, Mr. Lippmann wrote...
From the Federalist period until 1928 Newburyport, Mass, was a staid, church going, codfish-eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener...
...subject of European economic entanglements President Hoover found himself attacked from a new and unexpected quarter last week. Editor George Horace Lorimer of the staid Saturday Evening Post has been engaged in flaying the Administration for trying to "help people out of a morass by plunging into it with them." Said Editor Lorimer in the current issue: "Washington was right- meaning George Washington, not Washington, D. C. . . . Our international bankers have been babes in the Black Forest...
...pardonably believed we knew of the slow and gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...