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When an American college student or schoolboy speaks of "the fellows," meaning thereby his companions, the other boys, he uses the word in an older sense than the Oxford man does when he speaks of the English "fellows." A "fellow" was a companion, a comrade, a mate, before he was...
¶The President put his signature to the newspaper code, at the same time making three points which showed he was not at all pleased, 1) He was "not satisfied'' with its child labor provisions permitting boys under 16 to sell and deliver papers outside of school hours...
Mr. Finger is probably a nice enough old gentleman, and no one suspects him of not meaning well. We can sympathize with him for wanting to tell people how many books he has read and how nice they all were, and in sympathy we can forgive much. We can wink...
An admirer of Lenin (whom he never succeeded in interviewing), Duranty takes the un-Russian view that Lenin sometimes made mistakes. The NEP (New Economic Policy), which temporarily allowed private capitalist enterprise to shore up tottering Communist industry, was made necessary, says Duranty, by Lenin's misreading of world...
If the average U. S. citizen thinks of him at all, he remembers Rutherford Birchard Hayes as a Benign Beard who was the 19th President of the United States. His memory is more important in Paraguay. A well-meaning gentleman who once thought of enlisting for the Mexican War to...