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These handicaps proved blessings in disguise. Had America taken over the fully developed European forms there would not have been the originality that our system displays today. The American college, because of its very poverty, turnel its gaze to the instant need of things. It struck deep root in American soil and found the fertile springs of action...
...establish the principles upon which Chase shall be permitted to operate in the future, or I intend that he shall be shown to have no ground to stand on. If he wins, I shall at least have the satisfaction of the knowledge that his activities are opened to public gaze...
...thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian and the blessed...
...driven wheel rotating under the arena roof. Who could tell tomorrow from yesterday? Not the pedaling juggernauts. For all they knew, Time had reversed its gears and left them to pump on and on into the past. Douglas Fairbanks offered $200 for a sprint; Mary Pickford's starry gaze followed a little wearily the incessant circlers. A bronzed well-dressed little man kept jumping up and down in his seat. It was Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting the Ovis poll. He studied his program and laughed at some of the names. Were Grimm and Winter freezing the others...
...First Sea Lord Churchill used to drive gouty Admirals to distraction, by asking them suddenly, now and then: "What would you do if war were declared tomorrow?" He used to gaze nervously each morning at a chart on which the exact position of every major ship of every navy in the world was shown. And he used to make extremely hot-headed speeches advocating his "Home Rule" Irish policy...