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...meaning of this entry will grow until it includes in one vast growl of argument all the people from the hereditary janitors down to the sovereigns of the wrench and the nut. When it reaches the last named arbiters of human progress, the machinery, being neglected, will jam, whereupon the lights will go out. The growl of argument will then change to one great roar of anger...
...better if he had revised his play in the places where the dialogue smacks too much of "The Tavern". In an intensely melodramatic moment in the last act, Bruce Norton ends his speech by uttering in a hoarse whisper "Damn him!", and the doctor hoarsely whispers back "My God!" Whereupon the audience bursts out laughing. Nevertheless melodrama is melodrama, and it would never do for the heroine to talk pidgin-English without a steady flow of "damn" and "hell". For the audience loves...
Objections to such differentiation was voiced by several students, whereupon digious ignorance of the average alumnus and overseer as regards educational progress at Harvard, and said that he and other alumni were present to learn all they could from student opinion...
Tuesday saw another word-battle. Senator Heflin rose to speak on the New berry case, and there was a rush to the cloak room. Even those who remained committed the discourtesy of whispering among themselves. Whereupon Mr. Heflin waxed wroth and denounced the whisperers in no uncertain terms. Then followed an orgy of name-calling equal only to that of the day before. Needless to say, these remarks were "expunged from the record". And another expunging followed on Wednesday when some ill-considered remarks of Senator Reed's on the visage of Mr. Volstead vanished before the eraser...
...talk radically to hold their following, it began to look as if only complete surrender by the owners would avert trouble. There was surrender, but far from complete. The owners admit the principle of employe participation in management; the details are to be settled by a mixed commission. Whereupon the factories are to be restored, and the loud talk subsides because it is no longer needed...