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Last week the eleven judges who normally make a quorum of the court swished to their comfortable leather chairs, looked approvingly at the crisp new blotters, clean pens, gleaming inkwells and clear glasses of water before them, then glanced at the carefully printed memorandum of cases pending. From the register they learned that one of the next cases to which they must bend their minds was the unfortunate plight of Oscar Chinn...
...when the Democrats gained control of the House, Garner was promoted to the Speakership. Mississippi was redistricted and Collier lost a seat. Crisp dreamed of becoming a Senator and was beaten. Only Rainey remained. Last spring when the House was choosing a Speaker, John McDuffie of Alabama was a leading candidate until Doughton got busy...
...shells raced past the half-mile and then past the mile. Suddenly Bissell barked out his crisp command. "Up it, Gerry. Send it up." It was the signal to raise the stroke, to start the last...
...faults, but they represent the tendencies of the age. It is only a pity that there are so many pied de terres pocking the map of Europe such as Belgium, Poland, and the Balkans, flints to the steel that sparks international discord into war. Liberty, equality, fraternity, are as crisp and dead as the documents which attest to their existence. Democracy was only a step on the road to efficient dictatorship, as the Swastika aptly shows. Scientific organization cannot admit of rugged individualism...
...that it is all over a few more cold crisp facts concerning Mr. Julian Lowell Coolidge's one-auditor-and-no-enrolled-student course come to light. The course, faithful readers will recall, was given the airy spaciousness of Harvard 4, where Professor Coolidge had plenty of room for forensic effects on the lecturer's platform, while the auditor took notes feverishly and otherwise played the role of a full class. One day, during a lecture, a minor luminary of the janitorial force appeared at the door, looked in cautiously, then advanced bodily, into the almost empty hall. "Hello...