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...securing an acquittal against heavy odds, emphasizing by repetition his statement that "courts are cockpits in which lawyers may fight." There is a peculiar consistency in his defense of the hopelessly lost, of the rich and poor alike, of the underdog who is under because of inexorable gyrations of fate, which indicates that his motives are of noble origin. Or perhaps the grey and stooped veteran laughs behind his ugly face when he sees the jury succumbing to his harangue...
...that ghastly, premeditated solitude which is the fate of a man without a room-mate is an eventuality which few American college men care to consider. Always excepting the small minority who find endless resources with in themselves, college men would be at a loss without companions in their studies. A room-mate is always accessible when one wishes money, recreation, or that more subtle shade of human relationship which goes by the name of friendship...
Fortunately for civilized peoples, Roald Amundsen has a sense of the dramatic, a fondness for surprises truly theatrical, and also a practical ability in taking care of himself which leads to a triumphant conclusion. By providentially running into a strip of static, the fate of his expedition was shrouded in mystery sufficient to enlist the interest of the most blase...
...fate of "brown of Harvard," when it appeared in a revival a short time later as a musical comedy, was little happier. On this occasion, the resourceful undergraduate abandoned vegetables for alarm clacks, and pretty chorus ladies were driven off the stage in a panic by a barrage of time pieces. "Brown of Harvard" was thereafter permitted to slumber for several years, until at last a movie producer nosed...
...remarkable work on international politics. The Great War produced, of course, an enormous literature. During the past years several hundred books have been published dealing with the economic, moral, political and cultural consequences of the war and searching out the way on which humanity is moving toward an unknown fate. The subject of Mr. Bakeless' book is not at all new; but his conception and methods are excellent and distinguish this book from many other recently published works on such topics...