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...General Charles P. Summerall is the most distinguished graduate? Tommie Massie was graduated from there with me in June 1923 and I would not have wanted a finer man in the class. Bred in Kentucky, educated in South Carolina and Maryland, a gentleman through and through, "holding his honor dearer than his life...
...Harvard and men of Yale find in the occasion of their annual meeting the expression of a sort of national spirit more intimate than political celebrations because it springs from the dearer associations of youth. No truly national festivities are prepared for and enjoyed with more enthusiasm than the Harvard-Yale football game. The great recessional is on, but even into the excited talk of this football game there come confidently the speculations on the next game. And the past mingles with the present in assuring the future happy meetings of Harvard and Yale...
...With his eyes wide open to risks as extreme as any national leader ever yet ran in time of peace ... he staked his all, the leadership of his party, his whole career, his political life and associations dearer . . . than his personal life. We sav 'Thank...
...George. It is a successful creed evidently for the publisher of "The Bulletin" sets a great deal of store by his managing editor. The circulation of the paper increases and a reputation is ruined once an issue. Then one day Mr. Bancroft learns that his wife, who is dearer than life itself, is in love with the successful banker. Clive Brook. The managing editor goes to his wife to verify the story with blood shot eyes, distrait hair, and a wild look. One gathers that it is an ordeal for Mr. Bancroft. The next shot shows him dictating the story...
...resolved to violate the most sacred religious tenet of Hinduism: he ate a steak. His stomach, his mind and his soul quickly experienced a most excruciating triple torture. Thereafter the poor great man?the much-to-be-sympathized-with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?resolved that even to free Mother India, dearer to him than life, he could not pollute himself with meat...