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...country the marked service of producing a cabalistic word eminently suited to turn bootleggers to stone and petrify rum-runners in their very tracks, Mr. King has set the fashion which undoubtedly will become popular of inventing expressive nick-names of sufficient repulsiveness to apply to nuisances and wrong-doors of every kind. If one is plagued by cigarette borrowers, one can wreak one's vengeance by calling them "ciggabars" or "gottabutts". Or if one's room mate insists on leaving the bath-room door open when the bed-room window is up, one might effectively insult him with...
...time the course was abolished it was generally thought in the University that the reason for its discontinuance was President Lowell's disapproval. President Lowell, it was said, objected to the course on the ethical and moral ground that it was wrong to teach men of arguing both sides of the same question...
...Inefficiency. "It is the League of Nations court ... to which we could go, but to which we could not be brought. . . . No wrong could ever be righted. The peace of the world cannot be, in the slightest degree, affected by it, except so far as the nations concerned themselves agree...
Some of these stories are not what is generally considered nice. Stories of suppressed eroticism, of girls gone wrong and that sort of thing, told with almost Biblical frankness, can hardly fall to startle one now and then with bald adherence to reality. Sometimes one is offended. But these are not the only themes. The most delightful parts of the book, from our own point of view are those concerned with horses and racing which the author appears to love so genuinely. His dedication to Dreiser shows better than anything else his appreciation of horses. "To Theodore Dreiser, in whose...
...Walter Judd, opening the meetings, asked: "What is wrong with the world? How did it get in such a mess? What...