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...things differently. But with him, sworn duty is something holy. Therefore it is self-evident that relying on his Chancellor and Ministers he should regard the Locarno policy as progress along the hard road leading to the recovery of Germany's freedom of action. It is easy to understand that this fact leaves the Nationalists helplessly confused. In the Presidential campaign they raised the authority of Hindenburg's person so high that they naturally fear to be crushed if the full weight of his authority now falls on them...
...When she finds a word she likes or doesn't understand, she looks it up in every available dictionary and studies every possible meaning and use for it. Some of the words she does not fully comprehend, but she learns how to use them...
...those who have been graduated during the period from 1880 to 1892, the almost complete loss of prestige in athletics gained by Harvard over Yale from 1868 to 1879 makes it all the more difficult for those whose four years in Cambridge fell within the earlier period to understand what has brought about this change. Although an annual boat-race between the two Universaries was inaugurated in 1852, and kept up spasmodically until 1864, when the annual race became an athletic fixture, it was not until 1868, when Baseball was added, that general interest was aroused. In the fall...
...intends going. A young debutante has just written a play. The play is called "As He Thinketh." Delightfully complicating, these plays within plays. All the cats wonder how she could have written it. But since she wrote it while recovering from a nervous breakdown, the audience is given to understand that that explains everything, for anything may happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless young lady, in stalks mental telepathy. It comes in in the person of the mother of young...
Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke made calf's eyes in an interview. Said he: "I believe we handled the subjects in a way to rob them of all suggestiveness. . . . I am at a loss to understand the objections...