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...first faint peep of morning, the spirit of John Harvard, soft returning, takes up again its customary watchfulness: in sculptured meditation, behind that pensive mask, there sits enthroned a pedestaled revolt...
...General Clarence R. Edwards has asked the Military Order of the World to oppose the federal Child Labor Amendment unless it carries with it a universal conscription provision. He also urged a large air fleet, which, he said, "is one way to safety while we are busy converting the soft, mushy, pacifists...
Saturday night in Baltimore-and Representative John Philip Hill of the Third District was at home. A select party of friends attended. They smacked their lips. He served cider -semi-soft cider. It was made from apples picked up in his own orchard. A few days later, a Federal Grand Jury in Baltimore indicted him on six counts...
...well known saying among local Democrats that, 'if Curley and Walsh want to carry Massachusetts, they will have to soft pedal this Davis stuff.' This does not of course mean that there is more than usual support for Coolidge. It means that with two reactionaries in the national field, all the liberal vote is swinging to La Follette. You and Senator Walsh seem aware of this and have done all in your power to 'soft pedal this Davis stuff.' You have stood from under all that you could. But it is necessary to satisfy the national campaign managers that...
...John O'Hara Cosgrave of the Sunday World who first made use of his talent for limning the odd foreign character in a pseudo-fact story of New York life. Around the office of the World Bercovici used to be a wandering and slow-moving figure, his soft voice puncturing the bang of typewriters, smoothly but insistently. He is one of those quiet people, born to be persistent and destined for success. He and his ilk are important to America because they furnish us with a type of poetry which enriches our literature without degenerating our standards. Bercovici is essentially...