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...Comptroller has had his gentler side. The visitor to his office was sometimes startled to hear a soft chuckle break the icy atmosphere of his little realm. The secretaries who have felt his disapproval would be surprised at the solicitude beneath the unbending surface. Yet few associates would deny the truth of the prophecy that when the Revolution comes, Mr. Endicott will be the first to die on the barricades...
...publishers had to contemplate the fact that 60 days hence the President expected something to be done about child labor and newshawks' hours. If not, the President was empowered by law to impose his own changes, an act which would make last week's uproar sound like soft sweet music...
Arthur Lane has, said President Dodds last week, shown "uninterrupted improvement in scholarship'' since freshman year. Soft-voiced and friendly, he is concededly the best-liked student on Princeton's campus. Last week his proud classmates were ready to challenge the U. S. to produce a more likely candidate for Ideal College...
...eighteen scenes employed through the revue follow in spirited succession. Comedy, song and dance specialties are offered alternately before the soft curtains and more elaborate stage settings...
...lose caste with an invasion of Negroes. When the Lonigans moved out the old gang broke up. On a sentimental journey back to his boyhood streets Studs saw that his world's base had been built on stubble, felt to his secret horror that he himself was growing soft, slack, ignoble...