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...discuss this necessary monster, mayors, professors, doctors, businessmen betook themselves to St. Louis, to the 32d annual convention of the National Municipal League. They . talked feverishly about everything from city-owned taxicabs in Philadelphia to "half-baked vocational education." However, they all remembered the words of one man who stung the pride but revealed the feeling of many a metropolis dweller...
...remarked last year, when William and Mary scored on Harvard's fumbling tyros, that the ball had doubtless been carried by Mary. Remembering the jibe, and stung by two defeats this season, Harvard repelled the charging debutante...
Gigolo (Rod La Rocque). Edna Ferber wrote the story: a Western boy loses his fortune in Pa: shoots down enemy planes, sinks to the level of dancing boy lonesome old ladies, is stung back to respectability by his sweetheart's caustic rebuke, returns to the ironworks tradition of the pioneer Gorys, emerges on top after all. In spite of amateurish photograhy jumbled scenario, the audience found several good moments...
...Freshman football team journeys to Exeter today to meet the schoolboys in the second game of the 1930 season. Stung by a 6 to 0 defeat at the hands of Andover last week, the Freshmen are intent on avenging on Exeter the doings of its rival. Exeter, on the other hand will be out to erase last year's 15-0 setback...
...would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public which will pay the price to be stung...