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...elements of comfort are sufficiently few that the world can not afford to despise any of them. Aside from the pleasures of perspiration, and the more exuberant of evening joys, not many diversions are at hand. Vitally necessary it is therefore to conserve the placid comforts of a smoking jacket. In spite of the anti-tobacco league, the weed remains the constant solace of a harried soul. Since the time of Walter Raleigh, men have profited by the genial warmth of a mouthy fireplace...
...Andrus is a success, so much so that he can afford to be known as a straphanger. It is inevitable that he should hold up a standard. It is all he knows. But the situation which he deplores is bad pot, because of the evils which he decries, rather in spite of them. For, though most of the young men who are going out of colleges now will never be successes, most of them have that as their highest aims. They too want to be millionaires, though perhaps not millionaire straphangers from Yonkers...
Having heard this evidence, the presiding Judge fined Schwarz 168 gold marks ($40), the largest fine imposable under present statutes. Herr Schwarz stiffened from his slumping posture. Slowly and insolently he selected the bills from a loose fistful. Slapping his money down before the Judge, he declared: "I can afford any number of horses at that price...
...world and the new, Alexander of Macedon, Scipio Africanus, General Ambrose E. Burnside. They have pointed out that "when Alexander first took command of the Macedonian army he gave his soldiers the once-over and ordered them to cut off their whiskers lest the beard afford a handle to the enemy." They have quoted Pliny: "The younger Africanus was the first who adopted the habit of shaving every day." Of General Burnside they said...
...This committee, whose sole function is to strengthen the liaison between Harvard and her alumni, therefore urges every man who has been to Harvard to send at once something--whatever he can well afford, whether it be one dollar or five thousand dollars--to the Harvard Fund, and to see in the future that this gift is repeated annually. His gift will be gratefully received, and he will have ample satisfaction in the feeling that he is an active factor in the service which the University is so efficiently rendering to mankind...