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...boards to coordinate his department with others in case of air raids. "Pretty soon we may call out some of you fellows as volunteers," he said somewhat doubtfully. "We'll need about four hundred ready to work on the College buildings in case of a bombing." Turning towards a cigar-smoking clerk, he added: "That is, if we can depend on 'em. They think everything's a big joke. Why, we had to send a ladder truck down last spring to get a Lampoon man off the roof of his own building." But feeling in the delta of Cambridge Street...
...knows he has to work to get them. The old time courage is still there, plus the new scientific element which makes it a hundred times more valuable. Experience is reinforced with study and advancement is strictly on a merit basis. It no longer depends on the cigar dispensing technique once used so effectively by shennanigan-minded "politicians...
Blowing clouds of fury from a thick cigar, he showed newsmen the answer he had written to the President. He would meet with Mr. Taylor, he wrote. But he raked the Board for being "casual and lackadaisical to the point of indifference," for calling before it "only the inferior executives of the corporations involved," and for dumping "its own sorry mess into the already overburdened lap of the Chief Executive...
...short, round Santa Claus of a man, with a 5? cigar stuck in his mouth and a twinkle in his eye. He was also the greatest public-health statesman in the world. This week the full story of this remarkable man, Dr. William Henry Welch, and his remarkable career was told...
Rather a noble head, white hair and beard, eyes frosty blue, voice alternately brusque or urbane, and he walked always in a silvery gray suit the hue of his cigar ashes. Best seen, he was in the orderly disorder of his speckless, spotless study of a Winter's morning, back to a crackling blaze in the white marble fireplace, drinking strong coffee, smoking a long black cigar and laying down the philological law. "Then," said a devotee, "the old man was sublime...