Word: peepul
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...deaf torture, the dinner jacket? Where will this end? Soon we may hear that Germans do not drink beer that Frenchmen do not tempt innocent American chorus-girl-hood, that manicuring is a profitable Chinese industry. Nothing is more shameful than to destroy the faith of the great American peepul in foreign nature...
...cent school fine for having filthy hands. It would probably hurt Mr. Hearst less than the schoolboy because the injustices Mr. Hearst may do an individual here and there are wafted off his conscience by the enormous amount of good he thinks he brings to THE PEEPUL...
From time immemorial, when a necessary statute is not enforced officially, the Peepul generously take it upon themselves to act as keepers of the peace. Whether the undergraduate mob who bombarded a certain house on Plympton Street because of a belated burst of nocturnal jazz Friday evening, kept or broke the peace is a matter of opinion. That they enforced obedience to Parietal Rule No. 4, however, there is not the slightest doubt. Plainly it was a public demonstration that the greatest good of the greatest number shall be maintained, even at the sacrifice of alarm clocks, soap, bottles...
...chief executive of the United States, was not only in decidedly poor taste, and un-American, but also very unlike the Harvard spirit. It will be resented by many who, though perhaps disagreeing with the appropriateness of the ban on a sumptuous inauguration (not "the coronation of the Peepul's annointed"), nevertheless see in his action the conscientious endeavor to put into practice the principles he advocates. J. S. Robinson...
...newspapers, in fact, flash headlines that President Coolidge has whittled his inaugural expenses from $100,000 to $449.87. Stands, fireworks court of honor, all the pomp and circumstance proper to the coronation of the Peepul's annointed, are waved aside. The only vestige of the grandeur that was Rome which has escaped the austerity of the censor is the badge, symbol of authority, and lineal descendant of the fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear...