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...England, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England are no more fixed institutions than the London Times. But last week the Times moved. Funereal Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain punched a shiny newspaper press button, formally opened a spick & span Times printing annex which precedes the re-placement of the whole group of grim historic buildings around dingy Printing House Square, a block from the sluggish Thames in "the City...
...example of the unnecessary trepidation students feel about approaching higher-ups when in scholastic difficulties, Swett cited the case of a Freshman who was completely at sea in Biology several years ago. In desperation he button-holed the head of the department in the street, and demanded an explanation of a certain phase of the course. The professor took the student up to the laboratory and spent an hour and a half straightening...
...society's shield: a button bearing a top hat with U. S. A. on the crown and a cane and gloves rampant on a blue field. Its slogan: "He who walks backward never stubs...
...Yale scout was in an ugly mood. He kept muttering unmentionable words over and over throughout the first half, his brow a mass of furrows. Finally, after a Foley-Macdonald reverse which made the Elis look like participants in "button, button, who's got the button," he picked up a New Haven paper and turned to the "help wanted" page and kept his nose buried in it for the remainder of the game...
...scram. Lulie ain't here and things're too damned tame." But my roommate, Charley's his name, he says, "Oh, go dance with the hostess then." Only he says it sort of ominous-like. So I ask one of these flunkeys with a white flower in his button-hole which is the hostess. And he points over to a girl that looks like she'd kept pretty well, and I explain I want the Old lady's daughter. Then it turns out this is the daughter. So then I know what Charley means, and I get careful...