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...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...
...pickets. One tourist persisted in buying a hat, had it snatched from her head. Police found five live .bombs in a first-class compartment of the Darjeeling express. The walls of Bombay buildings mysteriously broke out in a rash of Red posters. Below a crudely drawn picture of a sword and pistol ran the legend...
Honored. Martin Henry Carmody, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus; appointed "private gentleman-in-waiting of cape & sword" to His Holiness Pope Pius XI; in Rome...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy who prearranged Dewey's Manila Bay victory; the New York Governor who rode into office on the laurels of San Juan Hill; the Vice President who presided over the Senate only four days, before stepping into the White House; the President who rattled the sword, yet kept the peace, who flayed "malefactors of great wealth," yet took their campaign contributions for reelection. Biographer Pringle's result is a very real Great American...
...Dartmouth experiment succeeds, it will be like adding a year to a man's life. But it must be remembered that the success of twenty dean-picked men is no proof that schoolboys at large are not better off with the sobering sword of the board examinations hanging above their heads...