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...Women" It is only natural that anyone who circulates as fast as Eleanor Roosevelt and sounds off so often on so many subjects should not consistently display Minervan wit & wisdom. Fortnight ago she published a book, It's Up to the Women.* Her theme is characteristic: "We are going through a great crisis in this country. . . . The women have a big part to play if we are coming through successfully. . . . Many of us are afraid because we have lost pleasant things which we have always had, but the women who came over in the Mayflower did not have them...
...introduced by sister Evelyn as "my brother Clarence Dillon." To the many "how comes?" "social history" records no entirely satisfactory replies. Clarence Dillon's picture shows him to favor his father and your "smooth cheery" description, along with the smile, would indicate that he has also inherited the wit and humor for which his father "Sam Lapowski" was known, well illustrated by the following story, I often tell, to illustrate like situations: Sam Lapowski's El Paso neighbor was one Stevens, pioneer realtor, robust, energetic, a veritable fanatic on exercise which often found vent in "sunrise lawn-mowing...
...Police Court the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, applied for a summons against the Duke of Atholl for violation of the lotteries act. The judge granted it, calling His Grace before the grimy Bow Street bar next week to answer to the Crown for his wit. Atholl had popular British sympathy last week because everyone knew he had really been trying to save for British charities some of the vast sum that annually goes across the Irish Sea to the perfectly legal Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes...
...feelings must have been felt by a member of the Saltonstall family, who wrote to the Secretary for information in University Hall whether he was aware that the cough-drop shaped affair on the Dunster Gable was the mark of a spinster. To this the Secretary replied, with some wit, asking whether Mr. Saltonstall did not consider his Alma Mater a spinster...
...king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...