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Professor Morize went on to deplore the enormous expenditures of money on building and equipment by institutions, and what he called "the incongruous mixing of courses in your schools and colleges whereby, economics, ice cream making, millinery, with a little dash of French literature, all thrown together, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree...
...Toastmaster, I think that business is going to the devil, that my bank has quite a few very poor accounts, and that some of you gentlemen here present will find yourselves in very hot water inside the next year." Such sentiments, however heroically sincere, would curdle the postprandial ice cream. About all the banker, considering his position, can well say is, that every cloud has a silver lining, that it's a wonderful country, and that if something doesn't prevent it, business will shortly be very good, probably...
...play of the small town. Author Purdy, won with his comedy-drama the prize of $500 offered by the Chautauqua circuit for the best play without sex; he earned every nickel of it. He walks around that tabooed subject more carefully than a cat around a saucer of cream...
...habit--P. G. Wodehouse goes to the door and looks for the milk bottle which he left out for his daily supply of humor. Sometimes the humor is richer than other times. One morning not so long ago he found the humor in the bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book he was just beginning, "Leave It to Psmith." And people who must avoid cream and humor should be extremely careful...
...possible to control the weight of the body by diet and exercise, it is an everyday observation that some persons grow fat while eating relatively small amounts of food and apparently without relation to the amount of exercise they take. Others remain slender while consuming large quantities of candy, cream, milk, butter. Scientists are convinced that the body build is controlled to a considerable extent by heredity and other factors, such as some governing influence in the cells...