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Slant-eyed hooligans, brazen infidels, gathered at the fence to hoot at volleyball and Christianity. Came a troop of well-organized students from a nearby Chinese government school and joined the hooligans, broke down the fence, swarmed upon the volleyball field. The converts, attacked, left off their game, flew with their fists to the defense of their faith...
...whose purposes are obviously innocuous and whose existences supply as much stimulus to exemplary undergraduate endeavor as they do to alleged snobbery and social intrigue, still, curiosity is at least the second strongest of passions and a body of fairly reliable fact has become public property-through indiscreet wives, brazen peepers and sheer accident-with the currency of which the inscrutable ones would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort, all its furniture being heavily upholstered in black leather; that over a bathtub hangs...
...piece of superlative insolence. It is so devoid of all common decency that similar conduct would bring a blush of shame to the brazen cheek of a first-class orthodox devil...
...Brandy drinking Frenchwoman"-"the dissipated Frenchmen" vs. "the clean living American." You are brazen. Suzanne has a sharp tongue and personally I do not like her ways. However her whole career was at stake in meeting Helen−small wonder that the temperamental Frenchwoman required a stimulant for her nerves. I am convinced that the French stars could not have reached their heights had they dissipated nor be more at home at a cafe table. If so, our examples of fine American manhood are not so clever, for the French beat them with a great handicap...
...criticism by the admirers of President Wilson. Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar of Tennessee last week exploded: "It is the grossest piece of effrontery for this unknown man from Texas, whom no one ever heard of, to seek to show that Woodrow Wilson was a puppet. Of all the brazen effrontery, this is the worst. He is guilty of the basest ingratitude." Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House absolutely proved, and that is the old French proverb that no man is ever a hero to his valet." He referred to Colonel House as "this little man that...