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...university students have any understanding of their own interest, and more especially if they have any appreciation of their birthright as American citizens and any willingness to support and defend democratic principles for the common good, they will put aside childish things now. They will prove, by restraint and self-control, their worthiness to be leaders. --Transcript
...general shady practices, it may well grow to be a powerful example to American football. Such an example, flourishing in practice as well as theory, would do more than anything else to return college football to that position which it once held and which is its inherent and natural birthright...
...Norman Hezekiah Davis, now President Roosevelt's famed Ambassador-at-Large. As go-getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves at the select, discreet and quiet Havana Country Club...
Much as America hates to admit it, the Dole undoubtedly saved England. Despite the "ignominy," despite the high-flown phrases about "selling one's birthright," the Dole, in fact, if not in name, exists and must exist in our own country today. But Britain faced the situation squarely as soon as it arose. The British grumbled, dug down deep in their pockets, paid till it hurt, and muddled through...
Hard-shelled old conservatives glare askance at today's young left-wing novelists, grumble that these youths have sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call...