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...which has to do with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot . . . and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience...
...Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
...commentary on politics and higher education when Republican corruption succeeds even in reaching undergraduates in college. Unlike its opponents, the Democratic Club with its ally, the Smith Robinson Club, makes no false claims of strength. Neither does it send its members madly dashing about with petitions, buttonholing passersby to sigh up for Hoover and the safety of the American home. It prefers to leave those tactics to the "dignified" Hooverites. Likewise have they found it unnecessary to create half a dozen organizations to include under the Hoover banner voters of both parties and every conceivable degree of undergraduate. It finds...
Harvard might be tempted merely to sigh contemplatively, and cock one eye on the tablets in the locker house that once announced records as good as the best. Young blood, young vigor, seriousness in sports . . . all very well, for those who still play with the zest of youth; here at Harvard, a tired savoir faire is said to have taken their place. Harvard might, indeed, merely sigh, or even yawn, if this were true, but, sadly enough for the erudite gentlemen who delight in classifying the University and all its contents with one clever phrase, not all the instinct...
...George Bancroft and Miss Evelyn Brent will probably go down through the ages as the players who made "Underworld," one of the tastiest cinematic hors d'oeuvres of all time. Meanwhile, however, they are devoting their efforts to making other and, it must be admitted with a wistful sigh, worse pictures. But since the decline from "Underworld" is of considerable extent their products...