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...succession of satirical sketches Authoress Brokaw parades a long line of gilded caricatures: Social Arbitress Mrs. Townley, her chief rival Mrs. Topping, climbing Mrs. Crumb, many another socialite host & parasite. All of them dislike one another, exert themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hosts & Parasites | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...broadcasting station''! opened. It was a great day for Del Rio. The six-page Del Rio Evening News published a 24-page supplement full of advertisements all welcoming Dr. Brinkley and XER. Full-page advertisers were headed by the Del Rio Chamber of Commerce, which blurbed: "We have the utmost faith & confidence in Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Brinkley and those who made this great station possible." Cinema theatres advertised "XER Gala Week" featured by the Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business. Dr. Brinkley and XER filled seven of the eight columns on the News's front page. The whole city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Goat Glands & Sunshine | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...race, starting at 2.30 o'clock over a six-mile course in Van Cortland Park, will find the Crimson favored for at least a third place, and counted on to do its utmost towards preventing Penn State, Syracuse, or Cornell, each of whom has four legs on the trophy, from gaining permanent possession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN HARVARD HARRIERS SEEK I.C. 4A LAURELS | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...vocabulary and conversational prowess of the Classical Club has been tested to the utmost at yesterday's dinner in Leverett House where only Latin was spoken. Hardly since the banqueting days of Trimalchio has such mealtime abandonment to the Latin tongue been reported; for even the medieval monks sandwiched in bits of contemporary jargon over their Benedictine. But at Leverett House, the only digression into the dialect of the Northern Barbarian Tribes was heard when food was ordered from the bewildered maids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENSA, MENSAE | 11/12/1931 | See Source »

...examining the man, his issues, and his favorable party connections, that CRIMSON is of the opinion that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the logical candidate to occupy the position of President and give to the nation at a time of utmost pressure a capable and intelligent leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. | 11/5/1931 | See Source »

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