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...life. President Companys finally appealed to decent citizens of every class to master the popular ruffians. "Against their acts," cried the President, "our citizens ought to react violently by whatever means they have at their disposal!" This amounted to saying that the majority of the rabble might be wrong, and Luis Companys nervously concluded, "Perhaps I ought not to say what I have said, but I believe that I may be excused...
...University which I will call Harvard and all the saps over there will think it is you. But as far as this letter is concerned that is no help at all. But I am cunning you see. I have already written over a hundred words without saying the wrong thing. In fact if you look carefully you will observe that I haven't said anything at all. Which is in the tradition...
...Rudy") Vallee, who recently was floored by Dancer George White, cut short his band music, stepped out onto a Toronto dance floor, strode up to a dancer whom he suspected as the bottle-thrower, knocked him flat. Greatly upset was Bandleader Vallee to discover later he had smacked the wrong man, Moffet Dunlap, scion of a wealthy Toronto family. To the Dunlap estate he hastily sped, apologized. Mumbled he: "I didn't hit him very hard. I greatly regret the whole affair...
Long familiar to Cape Cod residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner...
After a chapter devoted to the pace of U. S. life, called "Is Uncle Sam Insane?", Dr. Seabury boldly faces the problem of worry created by an insecure economic order. Says he: "Wrong social conditions that we refuse to change precipitate trouble. . . . Neurotic personal conditions we refuse to face intensify it. If we are not carrying disorder inside, we will meet the outside confusion with poise." He says that as a psychologist Emerson was more radical than Freud, asks readers to "consider how different Emily Dickinson would have been had she gone to Vassar and been a roommate of Edna...