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...grads who moan about the Stanford rough of the good old days might do well to rack their brains and decide whether the rough of naughty-naught was as hard-boiled as some of Mexico's sophomores...
...emitted, in the dead of night, not gentle, melodious, bell-music but a prodigious, strident jingling & jangling. There had been, Grotonians knew, depredations in the chapel. To catch the marauders (presumably schoolboys), wires and alarms had been rigged up. These went off, set the campus in an uproar, revealed naught but the fact that the alarm mechanism was faulty, had worked spontaneously. The villains have never been caught...
...then, holding up his hands in holy horror, pretend that the giving of all of it to his partner in treaty making would be incompatible with the public interest. . . . This is the question and it cannot be avoided by a half-quotation from Washington which is utterly set at naught by the full context nor by any pretense of safeguarding delicate international secrets...
Last week the House and Senate conferees' compromise on tariff flexibility (TIME, June 2) went for naught when in the Senate Vice President Curtis ruled it out of order. Grounds: the conferees had exceeded their parliamentary authority. Their plan, whereby the Tariff Commission might promulgate rate changes in cases where the President did not act upon their specific recommendations, was found to be new legislative matter which, in their original bills, neither the House nor the Senate had sanctioned...
...ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with clamor, dauntless courage met their need; Cameleer charging onward, urged...