Disappointed Anne Chamberlain Faces Dance Night Jealousies
Anne Chamberlain struggles to finish her country dance costume amid her indifferent escort George Hildreth. Visitor Neal Conrad, a young lawyer and local sensation, charms Anne and her suitor grows oddly jealous. Conrad admires Anne’s beauty and character.
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Anne Chamberlain
George Hildreth
Neal Conrad
Hildreth
Anne
Conrad
Gentleman's Offer Tests Hamstead Ties in Moonlit Talk
Anne and Neal share a moonlit conversation about travel and distance, while Anne resists abandoning her Hamstead duties. She recalls her upbringing with Mummer and Pupper, her school years, and the pull of George Hildreth, who remains her quiet connection to the farm. Neal presses for a long drive and more freedom, challenging her loyalty to chores and Sunday church duties.
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West Hamstead
Hamstead
Mummer
Sarah
Pupper
Anne
Loving
Wallacetown
George
Neal
George Hildreth
Neal Conrad
Hinsboro
Roy
Portland
Thomas Gray
Unsteady Romance and National Topics Intertwined
Anne and Neal confront a possible engagement while Neal, a Hinsboro lawyer on vacation, proposes a roadside picnic for a possible ride. The scene shifts to National Topics Interpreted by William as Congress opens with Roosevelt seeking to blunt discord and avert snowballing conflicts.
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William
Government and private business clash in public works debate
The author argues government projects harm private enterprise by diverting traffic to highways and questions if federal subsidies are proper. He recalls Insull and Greece wine quotas, a treasury gold piece incident, and laments policies that hurt commerce and common decency while hinting history repeats itself.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Public Works Administration
Fort Worth
Texas
United States
Maggie
Samuel Insull
Greece
Chicago
Insull
Washington
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Mr. Insull
Treasury
Roosevelt
Western Newspaper Union
Concave and Convex Mirrors Compare with Lenses
The piece explains how concave and convex mirrors act like multiple tiny plane mirrors producing lens like effects. Rays converge to a focal point and form inverted images similar to lenses. Image size varies with the divergence of incoming rays and object distance.
Beauty and Care Rule Your Off Days and Reflection
A long anecdotal piece stresses daily grooming to avoid visible neglect. Connie learns the danger of off days and the value of constant care, noting how fleeting attention or fussing can alter others' perception. It urges patience with wrinkles and steady routines for lasting youth.
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Connie
Postwar femininity returns as fashion refines its look
After wartime austerity women embrace a revived femininity with softer curves and healthier figures. Hair lengthens from boyish bobs to two to four inches below the ears, curls return, and straight hair is out. The trend favors fuller, natural head shapes, thinning to reveal contours, with a kinder, more ladylike appearance endorsed by Bell Syndicate.
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Fashion
Milady
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Poetry of Bible Lost by Form of Printing
Rev. Percy Dearmer of Westminster Abbey argues the Bible is the world's worst printed book. He compares its typography to a volume missing poem and essay titles, speaker names, speech divisions, and quotation marks, with chapters slicing meaning for easy parsing. He warns publishers would be ruined by such a format.
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Percy Dearmer
Westminster Abbey
London
Tennyson
Bunyan, Macaulay
Shakespeare
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