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Although Princeton has never been able to defeat Harvard in a formal match, their hopes are high. Winner of the Intercollegiates during Christmas vacation, Charles Brinton ranks number one on the Tiger team. Sophomore Johnny Humes, whom Brinton defeated in the finals, is number two man, and if recovered from a recent injury, Stan Pearson, who won the Intercollegiates two years ago, will also be in the lineup...
...pathetic fear of the amatory competitor of his youth, and his belief that his wife still loves the other man, lead to the high point of the play, a scene in which, fortified by a liberal dose of scotch, he decides to defend his mate by force, "like a tiger and his cubs." His eventual victory over the forces of ignorance is a wonderful boost to an intellectual ego shot to pieces by a week of midyears...
Should the U. S. become friends with the Axis? "Americans never can and never will do that. . . . No nation can appease the Nazis. No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. ... A nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender." He described the Nazi regime in language stripped of both sentiment and profanity: ". . . In their background the concentration camp and the servants of God in chains. . . . Shootings and chains and concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars...
...believe even the most monistic of philosophers would notice a tiger, and not stop to argue that it could not be validly considered except in relation to its background...
...gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws. Wailed the parents of never-married Miss Hill, "It has come as a great shock...