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A questionaire: a. submitted each year to the leaving students of the American universities.
It ombraces all sorts of topics from "Who is your favourite poet to "What is your favourite drink?"
The results from Princeton have) been announced.
Noel Coward beats Shakespeare by a head as the "world's greatest dramatist." Kipling and Brown- ing top the list of best poets, Edgar Guest and Gertrude Stein the list of the worst. Whisky was easily the winning beverage.
One question yielded replies of
SIX SHYLOCKS OF AMERICA
ENERGETIC ADVOCATES OF DEBT SETTLEMENT
"BRITAIN MUST PAY"
(By C. V. R. Thompson.)
THE DEBT.
Great Britain's War Debt to U.S.A. was She has since paid
Last-year she paid two "token payments"
The amount still owing, including interest, is
some value. It "Do MENTION the
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words war
£920,000,000 $293,200,000
- £2,000,000
£1,500,000 £877,600,000
He once spent hours in front. of a mirror practising forceful expression with screwing up of his little narrow eyes.
port yourself wholly or in part?"
debts" in the Senate of the Thirty-five per cent. of the stu- United States Congress and one of dents stated that they paid or aix men will stand up. helped to pay their own way.
He may be a grey-haired man in He gets the best results of this ja dark green guit.
practice when demanding that- FIFTY YEARS A PRIEST ·
He may be a man with aloud Britain shall pay. His remarks: Cardinal Bourne, who has cele voice and a short temper. He may bristle with time-worn philippica. brated hia golden jubilee as albe Tallulah Bankhead's uncle, He bangs his knuckles against his priest, can look back on 50 years Whichever of the six gets to his desk until they bleed..
His reasons for such an attitude
of service as rich in accomplish-feet first does not matter. They ment as any period since the Re-wili all say in essence the same are threefold......... formation in the history of the thing.
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He likes to be heard.
He likes to be vitriolic.
He comes up for re-election this
Roman Catholic Church in Britain. These six men are America's! The Cardinal, who is the son of chief Shylocks; leaders of a group post office clerk, has never been of politicians who demand at any autumn, and is espousing every
social figure like Cardinal price their pounds of sterling. populist. cause which may mean?
Totes.
"Britain must pay the debts she'
Henrik Shipstead Shylock Number Three looks as
Vaughan or Cardinal Manning.
But his devotion' to duty, his courage, his humility and piety owes us for fighting in the war, have endeared him to all kinds and full interest on those debts, and conditions of Englishmen. or," they say, "Britain will be if he ought to be carrying a spear But it would
His first curacy
was the little branded a defaulter,bankrupt, and in a Viking's warship, but the only serious trouble.
spear he has ever carried was 'a. not apply, at all if there were a Roman Catholic church at West debtor." distinct set of practitioners or Grinstead, Sussex, where the They, with their thirty follow-dentist's drill..
Minnesota's farmer Labour. Hong Kong. Saturday, July 14, 1934. "Trainers." There is no reason priest lives in a charming Queeners, are responsible for blowing
why a normally healthy man Anne house.
the dying embers of the war debt senator, Henrik Shipstead, wore the white coat of a dentist before should not go along to report Here he was in charge of an blaze into a roaring fire again. that his weight lifting power was orphan school; here he formed the They have forced Roosevelt'she assumed the more sombre cloth- falling off; or that he could not John the Evangelist which he hand to open palm upward to the g of a legislator.
The characteristics of his for- throw a cricket ball within nucleus for the seminary of St. debtor nations.
Health Week.
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from any specific complaint. In that we should of course be Not A Flop The absolutely healthy man allowing the thought of the would not suffer from such modern Samuel Butler in "Frew published. It should go down A book on diving has just been things, he would not know the hon." In his Utopia hidden up well symptoms, and he would conse in beautiful and inaccessible quently never think of them. mountains, he found a " well The average civilised man, ordered state where disease or more particularly the urban spe- bad health was criminal, and
The ardent racegoer who went cies, is content with far too low what we call crime was patholo on a cruise and wanted to back a standard of physical well be gical A fraudulent shroff the seahorses. ing. So long as he can get would be pitied and receive care-
Incurable
pay."
"Bullmoose". Johnson
Senator McKellar Senator Kenneth McKellar, a:
If there is one thing that we twenty feet of his own record, or John the Evangelist which he "Britain has plenty of money,mer. calling still cling to him, al- all ought to know about it that he found that two sets at afterwards founded at Wonerah, they say, "Right! Well, let her though he is now more interested surely is our health. Nothing tennis, finished him off when he Surrey.
in gold standards than gold fl concerns our daily life so intim could play six a year or two ago,
ngs. He sits at his desk running · ately, yet we do not really know we should only reckon that he
through papers with such minute much about it. We should prob-was a careful, not a morbid, per-
Pride of place goes to Cali care that one expects him to turn ably differ both in our definitions son, we should consider anyone. The poultry-keeper's daughter fornia's Hiram Warren
Bull-on an X-ray any moment. and our standards. Most people who 'neglected to get some good who always seemed to have a run moose") Johnson,
His attitude towards any kind of seem to think that they are advice was not doing himself in her stocking.
He is the man with, the dark concession to foreigners is like his healthy if they are not suffering justice.
green suit, the shoulders of which appearance finty and cold. are getting a little worn with be
the passage of his famous Defaul- Democrat from back home in Ten- 'ing squared for battle to obtain
ters Bill
nessee, often raises a florid but Honest, plodding Johnson, aided raucous voice in criticism of any and abetted by publisher, William move to reduce war debts or in- Randolph. Hearst, started all the treat. trouble a few weeks ago when it He has probably little reason seemed that further token pay
except that he hates Secretary of ments were a foregone conclusion.
State Cordell Huli, and knows His Bill closed America's money
that Hull wants to be just awful- on their debts towards America. Imarkete against nations defaulting fy nice to everybody.
McKellar beaded the political Always a bitter duellist, Johnson camps opposed to Hull's appoint was the first, Congressman to ment-the key position in the criticise Britain's attitude to war Roosevelt Government-and · In: Idebts.. Always a defender of direct contrast to the gentleness America's own traditional policy and tactfulness of his political. he fought Hoover's moratorium enemy he puts forward a front of with all the oratory at his com- being anti-everything. mand.
Leniency towards Europe is just. He said that it was all "tommy abhorrent to him because it is.
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through his routine without ex-ful attention, his intellect must ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT cessive fatigue, and avoid a doc- have been temporarily upset be- Henry (Kowloon): A law suit tor's bill he imagines that he can fore he could become blind to so called because it is pressed and ask no more of fate. Very dif- the disastrous effects of such both sides are cleaned. ferent was the standard of one conduct on his own happiness. famous doctor who was asked to and the prosperity of the state. Cannot Afford It say how he would recognise a If on the other hand he suffered condition of thorough health. "It from a nervous breakdown he is when a man," he said, "will would be punished with gaol und $4,000," says a writer. So vault over a table to save the hard labour for having adopted flapper vainly hints. trouble of walking round it" a way of living, so unjust to him-
“To launch a debutante costs
my
There are many parts of the self and his family and their Another. Wellerism world usually associated with prospects. It is only appropriate baking sun at midday and gen-to so admirable a scheme of life struggling artist said when he en- eral lassitude, where there is a that it was based on a total abo-tered the pawnbroker's. cont invigorating hour just lition of machinery.
Senator Wheeler.
"Pop goes the easel," as the rot" that, debtors could not pay. leniency.
A man who could once fight a political duel with his own Senator Burton K. Wheeler - 1s father is a dangerous man in opposed to war debts revision- politics, and the man in the dark merely because he loves Ireland.. green sult has been a danger in As ho loves Ireland, so he hates deed to those seeking, concilia England with all the fire of the tion.
anti-British Irish.
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about sunrise that does tempt One of the certainties is that Consistent even the sedentary clerk to such the nerve fatigue involved in re-
The cubist who wouldn't sign a
a breach of dignity, though he sisting the sea of machine made round robin... may spend his midday in won-noises the shunting and rat- dering how he did it,
tling of trains, the hoots and Bit Vague No reasonable man would set tyre bursts, and all the other re
Ho once fancied, himself in the out to spend any great portion of sults of our pursuit of speed and would be ready in a couple of Fresident, yet when given the The mattress maker who said he role of the reporter who became his time vaulting over tables. mass-production, is far greater ticks.
The test is that one ought not to than we are apt to remember.
chance to understudy the part in
the Vice-Presidency he stepped TREASURE HUNT FOR aside for Galvin Coolidge,
the
RARE STAMPS:
be below the level of vigour The great benefit of an annual Explains Why.. when one can be tempted occa holiday, or one of the great bene- sionally to do things out of sheer fits, is that we have a change of A famous R. A. declares that Then, when he had put aside the lightness of heart and bubbling noises. It is such a relief to the art is fighting for its very exis- definite stepping-stone to energy. The Hong Kong clim- nerves that it amounts in itself tance. I've noticed that the ma- White House he fought a vain U.S. Collectors Charter ate is all against. that sort of to that change of occupation jority of pictures have their backs battle after Coolidge's death to be thing. A good average condi- which is the best form of rest, to the wall. tion of fitness is about the best On the whole it is most likely
lit?
Liner For Cruise. his successor.
"Little Artle" Robinson Georgetown, British Guiana. one can hope for, and the ques- that we shall have to be content Facts You Did Not Know Whenever there is some mud-
A modern treasure hunt is to tion is, how are we to maintain to be our own trainers, and to apply the old maxim that every
slinging to be done in the Senate start soon in the West Indies In a debate some time ago it man at forty is either a fool or sandwich and ash tray, a new refresh-head is either slinging it or supplying pirate gold. They are a
Having recesses to hold a rissa, a short man with a cressed fore and British Guiana
But the huntera are not seek- was maintained that we ought to a physician. The drawbacks are ment tray is shaped like an artist's ing the mud. adopt what a: whether right-that at forty very often the mis-palette and is as easily held in one
"Little Artie Robinson, the. Ka dealers from the United States. group of stamp collectors and ly or not, - known commonly as chief has been done, and we are hand.
lusion senator from Indiana, who have chartered a liner to "The Chinese system" which is inclined to treat our own pres-
Ancrawdriver with a blade set at is Shylock Number Two supposed to be the payment of a cription with contempt.
cruise round the Caribbean ports 45 degrees to a handle has been in-His nuisance power in the Sen-In search of rare stamps. regular fee so long as one is well,]
vented for turning screws in corneste is supreme. He is a bad They hope to unearth, per- with the right to free treatment
Impossible to reach with an ordinary orator. He is the most unpopular haps, another specimen as valu in sickness. The medical men who were present were strongly
man in Congress, but he is a little able as the famous British opposed, on the ground that in
Large, enough to cross the Atlantic firebrand. Gulana one-cent magenta stamp England the regular consultation
ocean, a gilder boat driven by air pro- He taught himself to be a sena of 1856, said to be worth £10,- pellers And with accommodations for tor by copybook que of a doctor would make a nation
saw three men tres-60 passengers a being built in Ger- He spends his of hypochondrises.
the grounds of a Mél- many p pital The girls "dashed
sibly that would be true so
hawe have our pre
TWO NURSES ARREST
TRESPASSER
Melbourne, Victoria.
tools VT WAS
trying to
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