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...will ever again take part in world affairs is doubtful, due to his great age and to political hostility. Moreover the atmosphere at present is obviously hostile to the program for which he stands. In any case he has left a mark on his times which will not quickly disappear...
About dawn the landlady jumped up in bed as a volley of shots rattled the window panes. Feet thudded down the stairway. A voice cried: "Hell, that's enough -come on." The front door slammed. From a window the landlady saw two men disappear inside a maroon sedan, watched ihe car slip away in the half-light. Then she called the speakeasy. When police arrived an hour later, they found a group of gaping lodgers standing around the room in their nightclothes. Diamond's doctor shifted from foot to foot. A redhaired, wild-eyed woman was mopping blood...
...sketch of a tardy couple on a wharf watching a liner disappear on the horizon with the caption below "Don't just stand there. De Something!" Dr. Wells says is a perfect illustration of one of the many things that drives people insane. The picture of a fireman training a great stream of water on a blazing building and exclaiming "Geez, I hope the chief is watching," is the best medium that there is to show an inexperienced student that every individual on earth desires praise...
...would have seen an extraordinary sight. The hounds were baying wildly around a thicket in a clump of woods behind the Phipps polo-field. Into the thicket, to find out what was there, went Mrs. Hitchcock's whip. He caught sight of a man. saw the man disappear into a hole in the ground. Amazed, Mrs. Hitchcock ordered her whip to tell Mrs. Phipps's superintendent; then set off, with her hounds, after the rabbit. Later, the hole into which the man had disappeared was found to be seven feet deep, furnished with a blanket, pots & pans, straw...
...true that the spirit of exhibitionism which affected the activities, as well as every other phase of college life, is disappearing. The rattling Ford, the ukelole, the spirit of extravagant devotion to the college, all these are passing or have departed, and with them has passed the idea of extracurricular activities as the main aim in college life, a welcome sign of the appearance of a more balanced sense of proportion among the students. The extra-curricular activities themselves, however, now that they have resumed their proper place, serve too useful a purpose to disappear. They offer some testing ground...