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...natural aristocrat that he is almost incapable of hearing, let alone noticing, the personal criticisms of others. Whether reading Latin, running his hand over a horse or juggling with abstruse mathematical formulae, Christopher Tietjens is omniscient and, when the story begins just before World War I, apparently omnipotent to boot...
...Pendleton, the 1st's postwar training was the most rugged and exacting that any peacetime U.S. outfit got. Explained one Marine officer: "A kid reports for boot camp and we challenge the s.o.b., we dare him to try and be a Marine. We give him so much of that in boot camp-and even flunk some of them out-that when he gets out, he's the proudest damn guy in the world, because he can call himself a United States Marine. He's nothing but a damn private but you'd think...
...gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot. Rain drizzled down over the foothills of the Smokies. The mood carried into a big tent in Morristown, Tenn. (pop. 13,000), where members of the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, Local 1054, fidgeted...
...House Party Weekend--most sensational social event of the year--the Willies really go to town. They break out large numbers of water pistols, were all kinds of collegiate garb, and import many good looking women, who also man water pistols and run around in white shirts to boot. Before and after the game, the lacrosse players speed to and fro in fast motor cars, many of them new convertibles. In the Williams milieu, the frat house is paramount at all times...
...facultymen saw it, an oath under such compulsion was insulting, superfluous and meaningless to boot, because real Communists would not hesitate to sign it. Governor Earl Warren and President Robert Gordon Sproul, both ex officio members of the regents, sided with the faculty. Since professors already take the constitutional oath required of all state employees, argued Warren, they should not be singled out for another...