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...Miss Temple most winningly mistakes for an old acquaintance, thinking him a stork. It is really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether she may stay with her sea-bitten pals or must go to an institution, one comes remarkably close to the familiar midyear-finals feeling. And when the tension is broken, and Guy and Slim come crashing through the window where they had been watching, one chuckles with re- lief even though he recognizes this...
...flocked to the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in such droves as to necessitate the hanging out of the standing-room-only sign a New Lecture Hall. The repeated packing of Emerson D. last year necessitated this change of venue, which happily has proven all too confining for a Frost-bitten audience. The next rung of the ladder is Sanders Theatre which holds about three hundred more people than the New Lecture Hall and is Harvard's largest auditorium. A change to this new location should be made for the remaining three lectures so that Mr. Frost's inflated audience...
Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime president of the American Bar Association and of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and a hard-bitten Republican critic of the New Deal, is senior partner of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Short time ago Lawyer Strawn learned that the Black Committee had subpoenaed from Western Union copies of all telegrams sent or received by his firm between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew...
Johannes Gäntschow was the hard-bitten son of a hard-bitten father. His family of island farmers went back into pre-Christian times, and each generation was a little harder than the one before. Because his father took a scunner against him, Hannes was condemned to be educated. While his brothers and sisters were brought up to be farmers he learned the three R's with the local pastor. Christiane, the Count's daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away...
...even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore the flesh horribly, while after a dozen the back looked like 'so much putrefied liver.' After a time the bones showed through, blood burst from the bitten tongue and lips of the victim, and, expelled from his lungs, dribbled through his nostrils and ears. ... To be flogged through the Fleet to the tune of the 'Rogue's March' meant almost certain death, if not on the spot, a few days later; and on being sentenced to this...