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...encased in a small, closet-like cubicle. A maze of dangerous looking wires surrounded him on all sides. Bright lights shone in his eyes until everything had assumed an unpleasant roseate hue. Summoning all his bewildered faculties, he made a gallant effort to concentrate on the mirror in front of him which, under the glare of the strong lights, looked like a blazing inferno. Now Vag knew what it meant to be given the third degree...
...picked up his old ballet slippers, wrapped his copy carrier around his shoulders and with a heart-rending shrick of "God rest you merry Gentlemen" he wiped his striped club tie on the water closet, leaving the past to a scrap book of morons...
There is, nonetheless, a skeleton in the closet: it is social democracy. Here is a problem far more perplexing than any arising from the union. Would there be serious consequences from the assignment of one group of students to wait on another? How real is Harvard democracy? They are questions to be raised, not answered now. Doubtless they are bothering both University Hall and the Student Council committee. To conclude that all would be perfectly tranquil is certainly unrealistic; to say that Harvard would be divided into social castes is to subscribe wholeheartedly to New Haven versions of Harvard life...
...doubt a flood of letters protesting your selection will come to you, sent by D.A.R.'s, fearful divines, sabled, twittering, triple-chinned dowagers, the ostrich-minded city council of Cambridge, Mass., and similar groups of in-the-closet-and-under-the-bed-peepers who believe that enforced ignorance and a moratorium on thinking is "Americanism...
...eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them are just his sourer-faced neighbors. Whether they blow things up for Nazi gold or just for the heck of it remains as mysterious as where their bombs come from. With the help of three Spanish-American War cronies...