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...suddenly it has gotten dark...
Sample question: Has anybody ever gotten away with anything here-that is pinched a brick...
...President Roosevelt was striking not only at Democratic Committeemen who had gotten in on the ground floor of the new administration but also at a long roster of political has-beens, mostly Republicans who still thought they had enough influence to do private chores before old friends in the Government departments. Among these lawyer-lobbyists who could not tear themselves away from the fat pickings in Washington were...
...must have been pretty hard up for ideas because he made some amazing statements. "Yale," he declared, "is my favorite college because it is the perfect balance between the 'rah-rah' over-grown prep-school attitude of Princeton and the pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This can be attributed chiefly to lack of proper coaching and playing conditions." We agree with Helen Jacobs. Vines...
...into the City Hall, could benefit by looking to well-governed Cincinnati for a lesson. The lesson was fresh from the presses in highly readable book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from the beginning, who had gotten his political ideals from his Presidential father, his aggressive pertinacity from the football fields of New Haven and the battlefields of France-Charles Phelps Taft...