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...classmates were a typical Harvard menagerie, a group which was sorry for many things and many people, including Shaw. There was an elegant young dawdler who spent most of his time in Paris and just couldn't read Sir James Barrie; and the epigram-maker with the splintered promise of a satiric wisdom; and the young man of little backbone and less originality who betrayed--to his ridicule--a stammering eagerness...
...treated with excessive politeness or it would start a tornado. Said one of them: "I have come home from a Gulf trip so weak with suppressed rage at enforced politeness to an ojon, that I nearly died before I could pick a fight with some land dawdler or beat my wife about a trifle!" The Admiral of these pearl-fishers took a fancy to Juan, good-naturedly patted his head. "I did not wince, though that downward pat cost me a year's growth, since it shortened my neck. Men said that in moments of excitement the Admiral...
...gigantic, genial dawdler...
Professor Moore started his talk with the story of a young fellow in the Ambulance Service who was killed at Salonica, but whom the war changed from a dawdler to a man. "War is good," stated Professor Moore, "in that it makes men. This war has called many from past and present classes of the University, and in so far as they hold themselves true, the war will make them. But if they do not, it will just as surely unmake them as the Civil War ruined so many young men of that day, making them good-for-nothing after...
...justify himself in a year's time should the immitigable call to duty come, and find him wanting, an incompetent in his country's need, a dawdler among the frivolities of culture...
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