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...Herbert Barker, for the cures he effected among War wounded soldiers, received the honor of knighthood and obtained practical, if irregular, recognition of his skill while Dr. Axham, now a very old man, being deprived of his means of livelihood, has been in considerable financial straits...
...liquor traffic has become a means of comparative opulence to many families that formerly were on the records of relief agencies. In one New England industrial town a row of sombre tenements has been adorned by Stutz and Packard cars, purchased with the profits of a new-found illicit livelihood...
...scenes take place in the Senate Office Building. Clergymen and bootleggers, prohibition agents and flappers all appear. There are drinking parties and lobbying parties. Dry "lobby" methods are exposed. The bootleggers support the Dries to preserve their livelihood...
...possible that these idealists have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from...
...permanent appointment on what seem adequate grounds of promise, and yet ceases by the time he reaches middle life to row his weight in the boat. Is the institution to waste its funds and are the students to be defrauded of their due for 20 years to ensure a livelihood to a man or woman who has proved incompetent or becomes intellectually stagnant...