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...positively assinine thing that your faith is completely restored. One can do one of two things, to be dogmatic; he can keep facing the sun until it blinds him; or he can turn around and face the dark with the sunlight making a halo about his head and sell pot boilers to the natives. Well I do not contemplate chronic opthalmy...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

Royalty Stirred. When His Majesty was awakened at Windsor by the telephone message which announced the birth of his first granddaughter, pleasurable excitement definitely ended his slumbers. Unable to doze off again, he rose and brewed himself a cozy pot of tea. As the sun peeped above the Windsor Hills, he went ahorseback riding. Soon he and Queen Mary motored to Bruton Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Birth Royal | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

There are many and vital movements which the undergraduate should either take part in or take pot shots at. The Student Federation to some is important, to others as worthwhile as, a motorman on a dinosaur. The Debating Union could well indulge in debate on the Federation's merits. They could have pondered forensically the worth of the Student Friendship Drive--and, at least, someone would have understood why he was contributing. But the Debating Union is content to mangle Mencken or adjudge the capacity for boiled eggs of the average publicity seeker. Perhaps that is their ultimate. One could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO BE OR NOT TO BE | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

...prohibition pot boiled bitterly, not merrily?in Washington last week. Most of the turbulence was on the surface, yet perhaps it displayed a little of what was going on underneath, for prohibition is expected to play a major part in the elections of at least three large states next fall, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania?in Illinois because Mr. Brennan, the wet Democratic boss, has announced his candidacy for the Senate against the dry Republicans; in New York because the drys are expected to put up a candidate against Senator Wadsworth, who is not dry enough to suit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Toil and Trouble | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

When an artist finds his half drawn sketches, his blurred wanderings and unfinished efforts, exhibited in some haven of the fine arts, he can consider himself to have arrived. A strange paradox this--that a successful artist must be judged in part by work which is not even pot-boiling, but training exercises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

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