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...Majesty was graciously pleased to approve the design of a two-foot key of "precious metal" to be presented to him with the Freedom of the City of White Plains...
...every May is always fully reported in metropolitan newspapers, any outsiders are well aware of the tense excitement, the sense of a noble and picturesque tradition that comes to Yale on Tap Day. But there was once a time when Yale's four Senior Societies- Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club-were taken more seriously than now. In that day Yale would have shuddered if its dean had said, as Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell said three years ago: "[The Senior Societies] must face the charge that the Senior Society men are no longer, through...
...over 500 men, obviously no selection of 45 (and including the Elihu Club, which has fallen into the system, 601 men can longer be possible on the old basis," it reprinted a "courageous" letter written to the Yale Daily News by Wilder Hobson, a 1928 member of Scroll & Key...
When a motorist wants his car back he turns a key, presses a button or drops a coin, according to the parker's electric control arrangement. Thereupon the cage containing his car drops to street level, the car rolls out, much like a "hot dog" rolling out of a roasting machine in a roadside rotisserie...
...glassy sea of crime fiction this book bursts up like a breaching sea-serpent. . . . If you have a sneaking suspicion that the general run of detective stones are drab, mechanical, unconvincing ?in short, not so well done as they might be?read The Glass Key and have your suspicion confirmed. Defenders of the old-line detective story might object that The Glass Key is less a detective than a crime story. But whether you are a squeamish voyager among books or so hardened that the roaring forties seem like the doldrums, this book will be a portent...