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...cause of the meeting was almost as vital. Hugh Montague Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton. had just published a report after 18 months in office as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. Over four years ago the British public was startled to learn that the placid British bobby-historically the calmest of constables-was not immune to bribery and graft. There were nasty disclosures about protection from raids granted night-club owners. Viscount Byng of Vimy was drafted as Commissioner to reform the force. Eighteen months ago Lord Trenchard, a cannon-voiced officer known as ''Boom" to the Royal...
While these lines might indeed achieve a noble and sonorous effect when sung by a great chorus, sincere admirers of Kipling sadly reflected that a generation has passed since his genius alone was sufficient to set mighty rhythms beating in the blood of even his calmest readers...
Liberal Whip David Lloyd George popped many a stinging comment in his coarsest and least happy vein. Labor Whip Ramsay Macdonald egged on J. H. Thomas, usually one of the calmest Laborites, to make no less than twelve disparaging orations. Meanwhile sleepy members formed quartets and sang the U. S. Civil War ditty "John Brown's Body" to keep awake. Recitations of "Pop Goes the Wease"? were loudly applauded in the lobbies, while one right honorable member chanted...
...Another new sensation is our new Harvard College President. King Log has made way for King Stork . . . . I cannot help being amused at some of the scenes we have in our medical faculty; this cool young man proposing in the calmest way to turn everything topsy-turvy, taking the reins into his hands as if he were the first man that ever...
...where relations become more complex there is liable to be error of judgment. Men place stress on external appearances, they judge others by their possessions, or some fancied distinctiveness of birth. At Harvard, as at other places frequented by civilized man, those external appearances are apt to mislead the calmest judgment, and give false value to the characters of some men who seem greater than they are. Yet such superficial judgment is far less common here than it is under a more sophisticated mode of life. It is the reaction from the barbaric simplicity of the judgments of youth which...