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...Theodore Roosevelt could be let down from the battlements of Heaven in a parachute and began without warning to say the things he said 20 years ago, he would shock, astound and paralyze the American people...
...Scarcely had we emerged from the building when another and more violent shock seemed to cleave the earth asunder, throwing every one to the ground. Here we remained prostrate and stunned, expecting death at any moment...
...Antonio, Tex., smiled pityingly at an elderly gentleman whose two broken ribs and fractured collarbone they were plastering last week. He had been run down by a motorcycle -another one of these dizzy old jaywalkers, they supposed. But when they finished their ministrations, the hospital folk had a shock. The patient felt his casts, winced a bit, straightened his good shoulder and announced that he would leave town at once as he had entered it, by airplane. He was on his way from Los Angeles to Mitchell Field, N. Y., and could not delay longer, he said. Doctors expostulated, bystanders...
Harvard will admit that the Yale spirit, that intense sentiment of community loyalty, has its merits (for Yale men); but Harvard's own tradition has in modern times been individualistic. Harvard has grown from a small college to a large college with perhaps the minimum of shock; there are more individuals than there used to be, but the individual is the unit...
...sake of greater tolerance toward three in every hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...