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...javelin requires of its master the most all-round athletic ability. The best men in javelin throwing have been, without exception, pentathlon men in their own country. This is very natural, because first-class results demand that a man possess a steel, sinewy, supple body. Shoulders, stomach, thighs, and calf also undergo a tearing strain. The hardest trial is demanded of that part of the body where lies the javelin thrower's soul, namely the elbow...
What may be called modern fiction is apparently under the ban at Widener. "Alice Adams", "Main Street" and "The Age of Innocence" have slipped in, but "Moon Calf", "Zell" and "Miss Lulu Bett" are not on the shelves. Joseph Hergesheimer's books have a place, but only since last year; while James Branch Cabell has but a single volume listed under his name in the catalogue. And there is hope, we are told, for "Erik Dorn" and "If Winter Comes...
...golden calf which America worships" cannot be shattered by "quiet staid respectability." Nor can an intellectual aristocracy which hugs the fireside, and sips tea--or coffee, and fiddles with ideas "guide an amorphous democracy", intellectually or otherwise.' This is no time to indulge in neo-classic vagaries. Now, as never before, the world has need of its youth. There are vital problems to be solved, courageous beliefs to be voiced and translated into action...
...characterizes himself, "I'm the family skeleton; can't you hear my bones rattle?" Unable to abide the domineering influence of his father or his interminable demands for "an explanation" of each wayward act, William had fled to America fifteen years before; now he fails to find the fatted calf awaiting--in fact he receives a decidedly frosty welcome from all but his mother and sister. One brother, David, has become a meek and cringing rector, while George, the other, is a Conservative candidate for Parliament; both represent the views and ambitions of his father. The horror of the family...
...woolen coat reduced from shoulders, $1; shortening sleeves of O.D. woolen coat 25 cents; collar cut down O.D. woolen coat, 75 cents; new collar for O.D. woolen coat, $1; O.D. trousers taken in st waist, 25 cents; O.D. trousers taken st waist down to crotch, 35 cents; calf of leg altered on O.D. woolen trousers 35 cents; canvas leggins taken in at bottom 25 cents; chevrons sewed on coats and shirts, 15 cents. These prices have been accepted as the lowest practicable to obtain and still insure good work...