Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post-Gazette quarrel was settled by compromise last week. To discipline the recalcitrant Press, the storekeepers considered publishing their own Shopping News. But merchants know that such a paper, now found upon the doormats of Washington, Cleveland and other cities, makes dull reading for housewives, is frequently hurled into the ash can by husbands. And the Press, last week, still refused to budge...
...Last week in Philadelphia the Woman's Christian Temperance Union demanded that the Civic Opera Company remove from its Hansel production the inebriate father whose shortcomings are so clearly shown to be of evil consequence. The Woman's Executive Committee of the Civic Opera Company held a conclave, unanimously passed a motion to ignore the Temperance Union's protest. Said Mrs. Henry M. Tracy, president of the Company: "It is perfectly idiotic and shows the lack of knowledge on the part of members of the W. C. T. U. of opera. For even if we wished...
...students that once, while lying ill in Europe, he undertook to read all of the stormy Italian poet's work. He concludes: "At the end of which time, gentlemen, I came to the decision that D'Annunzio has a dirty mind." Harvardmen were sorry to hear, last week, that Pedagog Perry was resigning his chair to become an Emeritus Professor, having served the University well for 23 years...
...years ago, the son of a professor, he graduated from Williams College in 1881, taught there from 1886 to 1893. For the next seven years he taught at Princeton, assuming the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly during his last year. To do this he had to split his week between Boston and Princeton...
When this dilemma presented itself to Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan she decided not to pay the bill. Painter George de Forest Brush promptly sued. The case was called for the third time in Manhattan last week. Mrs. Brooks-Aten displayed her matronly face to the jury, produced testimony that the portrait gave her shoe-button eyes, that her figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait...