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Electric lights failed when the current went off, and thus you were just the tools of Mr. Insull or Mr. Hopson. The bigger and shinier and faster you automobile was the more apt you were to get bamped off unpleasantly. A medieval arquebus was much more decent. It was all a lot of rot--modern existence. I was insistent. I was almost a Miniver Cheevy...
During my 25 years of fox-hunting I have been present at a few kills, but never have I beheld a woman, either decent or indecent, holding aloft a fox's brush (or tail, to the Bishop), with the field of 30 or 40 yelling "Trophy...
...raise basketball from a minor to a major sport, it is essential to make a decent showing this winter and to arouse the interest of both the college and the public. The former must cause the latter, and so much has Harvard basketball improved that if still continues to progress, there may come a day when another major sport will be added to the present list...
...scheme of a pan-Hellenic united front. ". . . Philip--a man who not only is no Greek, and no way akin to the Greeks, but is not even a barbarian from a respectable country--no, a pestilent fellow of Macedon, a country from which we never even get a decent slave..." In 338 B.C., however, at the battle of Chaeronea, Philip whipped the Athenians and gave them peace on astonishingly lenient terms. He became captain-general for the war against Persia...
...hamlet in Massachusetts making political friends. He denounced the New Deal not so much for what it did but for how it was done, demanded, "Give business a chance," "Give Massachusetts working men proper tariff protection," "Stop taking money out of Massachusetts." Two advantages he had: the disgust of decent citizens with the unsavory politics of the Curley regime; the fact that Thomas J. O'Brien, Union Party candidate for Senator as well as Vice President, split Curley's vote. Long-legged Lodge made the most of his chances. He marched into Curley's stronghold, Boston...