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...liked the dining halls. We liked the comfortable unhurried digestion that is concomitant with impeccable service in long panelled walnut dining rooms, staffed with brisk and efficient waitresses in uniforms of English service. We liked the ladies whom the Corporation has managed to coerce into accepting the situations of head- waitresses; and the way in which they asked whether the dinner was good. We liked the printed menus and the good food, and the spotless napery...
...where is there a Boston Nugget, where will you find, brisk, boisterous, debonair academicians clad in comfortable corduroys and sweaters? Where will you get our hill-winds and our mountain air, our Appalachian snows, and Alpine sports? With all due gratitude for hospitality received, we choose Hanover. The beer is better for one thing. And the Brahmins of Boston don't get in your hair. The Dartmouth...
...these cracks occurs there is "universal laughter", as they say in Parliamentary reports, and nobody laughs louder, with a more insistent shrillness, than the reverend or almost reverend graduates mentioned above. Already they seem to belong to that up end coming cohort of holy men who are brisk and virile at church doors, and who in their hearts find Jesus Christ all very well, but not so absorbing as Golf on week days. Comment is superfluous; all the same one is continually reminded of Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Sir, the merriment of parsons is mightily offensive." Cuthbert Wright...
Enjoying the brisk October sunshine, a middle-aged man strolled along Manhattan's art-dealers row, East 57th Street, last week. Before the E. & A. Silberman Galleries he paused, startled. In the window was a large and ancient painting of Susanna. And Susanna was naked. The middle-aged man entered...
...President and Premier? No one had the slightest objection. Dead tired Deputies rested their raw throats, their heaving lungs. Amid utter silence Spain's new Chief Executive was chosen unanimously (the 50 pious clericals remaining absent). Up the steps of the Assembly Tribune at once climbed President Azana, brisk and stern. Jerking a paper from his waistcoat pocket he read out his new Cabinet...