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...trained to the sacred principle of accurate rhythm, the foundation of good symphony playing. They do, however, go in for American noise. The severely played jazz is a frightful row, stiff, harsh and unattractive. It is even worse than the genuine American jazz, though it does not so greatly offend the refined instincts of accurate time of those bred to high music...
...York State the last election showed apparently that a wet platform carries the. support of a large vote. For a month there was before Governor Smith of New York a bill to repeal the state's prohibition enforcement law. He had the simple choice of offending either the Wets or the Drys, and he chose to offend the Drys. He signed the bill repealing New York's enforcement...
...friends assert that it makes him certain of the Vice Presidency nomination on the Democratic ticket next fall. Others are equally certain that he cut his political throat. Whichever may be the case, it was an unusually clever move of his to base his action, bound to offend the Drys, on a fundamental doctrine of the Democratic Party...
Such a court is directly in line with the aims of the most ardent internationalists; yet it cannot offend the more conservative, because it involves no responsibility on the part of the United States. It is through compromises of this sort that friendly intercourse and better understanding among nations can most readily be encouraged...
...system more heinous than grammatical innaccuracy or "lowbrow" talk. But the misuse of the English language so prevalent on every college campus indicates, deeper down, a state of laxity reigning over almost every branch of conduct. Men whose conversation is deficient either in grammar or in taste not only offend their hearens but reveal themselves incapable of verbal self-control...