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...stirred, did gain something from the years of trial which time cannot wipe away. But we have glossed over the marks, a protecting covering has grown over the wounds, so that not all prying eyes about us may see. We guard our sorrows, our losses, for ourselves. They are hot things for public show. So we take this second volume and read it in silence, away from the rattle-and-bang of everyday. Perhaps we pause in reading and our eyes are misty for a moment as we see dusty roads with cheery grinning boys' faces under their "tin-derbies...
Second thoughts, however, dash, these hopes for fame. One has but to remember the song "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" to see that we do not stand alone in our wickedness. And is there not a moral of some sort attached to the expensive, rakish horses and turnout of Pendennis...
...state. "Laugh and the world laughs with you" is still a live adage across the Rhine. It will be interesting to see whether the convict-clown will be finally discovered playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine waterway, or indulging in a lively game of "pease-porridge-hot" with his former jailers. Either would be a fitting third act, and one at which the Germans could indulge in their infectious laughter to the merriment of everyone. Indeed, 'tis a pretty play, and surpasses even the time-worn spectacle of a cat chasing its tail. The Lieutenant...
...newspapers have been full for the last six months of the controversies between Wilson and his superiors. In subordinate, incompetent, constantly in hot water, his removal became daily more imminent. Wilson says that Senator Lodge, Congressman Winslow and Congressman Tinkham are responsible for his discharge. They deny it. Are we going to accept the word of these three graduates of our own University or the word of Wilson...
...Waldorf--until the period of the Great Plague is over. There that exotic bloom known as a college education can be cultivated "under glass", and many a fragile blossom preserved which, in the open, would never survive the rigors of our northern elimate. And are they not held--like "hot-house" grapes--to be the more valuable because so tenderly and expensively reared...