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...will sympathize with the unfortunate inhabitants of the Yard and Business School dormitories from whom the chill breezes of Cambridge winter have elicited a chorus of complaint and protest. It is, indeed, a sad state of affairs when the heating management makes it necessary for the cloistered Senior to crawl between icy sheets after burning the mid-night oil. And it is hardly to be expected that future business magnates of the nation can survive the ordeal of climbing out from between warm blankets and dressing in the unfriendly atmosphere of refrigerator-like cubicles. No one will deny that...
...They'll take you out and they'll lower you down, While men with shovels stand all around; They'll throw in dirt and they'll threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth, They invite their friends and their friends' friends too And you look like hell when they're -through-with you. There are long narrative songs...
Every man be he Dr. Straton or Joe Forecast should, when he has made a statement, be willing to stand by it, and not wish to crawl out of it like a dastard. If Dr. Straton desires publicity, his is a good method of obtaining it. If, however, he wishes to see articles reporting his speeches written in a tone complimentary to him, let him think out what he's going to say before he says it, and not talk for a half hour extempore at the conclusion of his main address...
After the tree fell the small and peaceful deity made Metabel crawl into the bruised tangle of branches so that when Joseph found her there he would think the top part of the tree had fallen on her. There was a thunder storm that night, and Musket, who was an old dog and had just had a somewhat exhausting love affair, was annoyed at having to sniff about the damp slippery woods all night. In the morning Joseph found Metabel and promised that he would not cut down any more ash trees. He even kissed...
Colonel Roosevelt led a typical attack on Tammany graft and Governor Smith as the leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...