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...waistcoat for the season is the single breasted model with square cut collar. White corded effects are the only proper vests to wear with Tails. Brocades and other fancy materials being definitely wrong...
...train, air-cooled V everything. Show me something better "up North!" You wouldn't call Dallas, New Orleans, Natchez and Shreveport "backwoods," would you? Perhaps the inspiration comes from your idea of the country we traverse. If it does, then you're wrong again. The Mississippi Valley isn't "backwoods." Neither is the famous, fertile Red River Valley. Neither is the rich, agricultural section of North Texas. (I'm attaching a map showing this country. You oughta read up about us. You'd get a different picture.) Something else. Take a peek at the bond...
...Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned one colonist into a spying stoolpigeon...
...comprehension of the text. Typography is the efficient means to as essentially utilitarian and only accidentally aesthetic end, for enjoyment of patterns is rarely the reader's chief aim. Therefore, any disposition of printing material which, whatever the intention, has the effect of coming between author and reader is wrong. It follows that is the printing of books meant to be read there is little room for "bright" typography. Even dullness and monotony is the typesetting are far less vicious to a reader than typographical eccentricity or pleasantry...
...finds it hard to see just what he can really agitate about. Student publications, for instance are not victimized by political censorship, such as "The Daily Texan" has had planted over its presses by local sulphur-mining interests. Faculty councils have not been bothered by dismissals, right or wrong, like the Davis case at Yale, University officials have not been pained by hot-headed and emotional strife such as Burke, however justifiably, stirred up at Columbia. In short, Harvard has gone about its business in peace and quiet, its cloisters untainted by the breath of civil...