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...nearer to the truth to assign Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself as the Marx...
...Sweden and Canada which had only one. A team with two men in the finals could send one careful jumper around the course for a faultless record, and let his comrade on a fast mount go hellbent for speed with a prayer that he would not make too many faults. For the Irish Free State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47⅔ sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick A. Aherne on the chestnut gelding Gallowglass. He was out for speed...
...Riordan. The stock declined, however, and Mr. Kelly let his option lapse. Once again the members were called upon to take up their stock and the loan was paid off. So suavely precise, so frank with his facts was Mr. Raskob that even the Senators could find no fault with his story...
...main fault with the movie is that the plot is burdened with a superfluity of juvenile acting, in most cases under tearful circumstances. Ricardo Cortez is perfectly cast as a good friend of the night club star, but David Manners and Lyda Roberti have been deprived of bettering the show due to the short time they appear on the screen...
...convict Dudding addressed to "my friends, interested and curious watchers, eyebrow lifters, I-told-you-so nonbelievers, and whatnot," stating that Miss Chemical Dudding would be stillborn. ''Now our prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault on our part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers of the St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) epidemic by letting them bite ten short-term convicts' in Jackson, Miss.: pardons from Mississippi's Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner...