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Consider, too, the sociological import of such an event. The working man may abandon overalls in favor of riding breeches, after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York...
...contest with the Senate, he has a pronounced advantage in the public eye, for the public is made up largely of business men whose natural sympathy is with one who drives ahead to get things done, rather than with the deliberate and political type of mind loathe to abandon its measured tread and political shifts...
...interesting relationship is discoverable between the announcement of the Guggenheim scholarships, the speech of Mr. Young on the establishment of the Walter Hines Page School and Dr. Goodnow's discussion of the possibility that Johns Hopkins University may abandon its undergraduate degree and devote itself to graduate and research work alone...
...German Count Albert von Quadt, onetime Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy at Washington?; thus, on that score alone, De Martino was well known in the Teuton grand monde. He had, from August, 1914, until Italy entered the War in 1915, constantly, loudly and successfully counseled Italy to abandon the Triple Alliance and join the Triple Entente. On this account, too, he was well known in Germany?and well hated. His position called, it was said, for the utmost "dignity, tact, patience and firmness", all of which qualities he showed superlatively...
...congratulations and the expression of its gratitude to Dean Pound upon his decision. It is grateful that he is to remain here where the reputation of the Law School has risen with the growing pre-eminence of its Dean. It is grateful that Dean Pound is not to abandon the work which he undertook nine years ago, even in the face of so advantageous and weighty an offer...