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...story, then, is an imaginative one, and those who have thought of going on a long-term masquerade on a big scale will do well to study it. But to this reviewer, at any rate, it was just another proof of the dictum that direction of the imagination into desirable channels is the secret of a happy and virtuous life...
Rough-housing on a train--not even a special train but one shared by other passengers is no proof of superiority in brains or in courtesy. It yields no evidence that the young participants are any better than the most ordinary hoodlums. Boston Traveler
...meant more, perhaps, than it does now; written, not with skill according to technique, but from their hearts. That they are sung today without question, without thinking of the ignorance which put Palestine shepherds watching over their flocks in the snow that covered the more familiar English fields, is proof that the spirit of Christmas has never been more truly given to the world in music...
Next day the Municipal Council of Frankfurt gave striking proof that in the new Socialist republic of Germany there is free speech and freedom of the stage. By a vote of 47 to 35 the Council rejected a motion ordering that the farce Marriages Are Made in Heaven should be closed by the police. Meanwhile the drama critics of leading Frankfurt dailies exhorted their readers against further throwing of bombs in the name of Goodness and Piety. True Christians, they pointed out, ought to follow the sublime and nonviolent example of Christ...
...contest of teams, the teams must play each other many times before it is possible to decide which one is better. Thus it is impossible to decide which football team is the U. S. champion and even sectional championships are usually disputed. If one victory is taken as proof of superiority, it might be shown that a grammar school eleven in Eastern Iowa has the most powerful football team in the U. S. If not, it is only possible to single out individuals and rate them as solitary heroes. This thankless task is attended to by sports writers on whose...