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That the course is not the sinecure the would-be critic would have us believe is borne out by the official college record of the distribution of final grades in the college. The record indicates that for the past year grades for all classes in Naval Science have been more severe, group for group, than has been the case with the average of all other courses which have at least a proportion of 25 per cent of undergraduates...
...week that followed his address to the nation-an address in which he had shucked off the last shred of U. S. neutrality-the White House was flooded with messages, voicing approval in a ratio of 100-to-1. Even the Baltimore Sun's Frank Kent, bitter critic of the New Deal, wrote: "There can be no doubt that the President has voiced what the great bulk of Americans have in their hearts...
...money, a name and a flair for publicity; he had Lord Randolph Churchill's "force, caprice and charm"; and he had an incomparable gift for words. During his years of eclipse between the two World Wars he was an articulate and consistent critic of British Empire policy, the most feared politician in Britain by the narrow-minded men who made that policy. He was the one man in the British Empire most obviously equipped to lead the Empire in war, and it was small credit to Britain that he was not chosen to lead it until the Empire rocked...
...Folk-Song Symphony made good listening, moved Critic Herbert Elwell of the Plain Dealer to write: "Forty-five minutes swept by like a second and left one listener with the excited consciousness of having heard something like the American continent rising up and saying hello. This music is nothing...
Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the dignity of literature. Others have called him an acute social critic, professing to see the blunderings of Munich foreshadowed in the maunderings of Bertie Wooster...