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...there be serious study and discipline when five minutes before the end of the period, a jazz tune or a Christmas carol comes over .the loudspeaker to disturb the lesson; that is the signal for everyone to talk.. . . Bells ring, and 1,200 students rush shrieking into the halls. A clock and bells are the dictators of the schools...
...general, industry accepted most of Nathan's facts but decried his conclusions and-most of all-his implications, which in effect would put a ceiling on profits, discourage risk capital, tend to squeeze out marginal enterprises, and otherwise disturb the machinery of free enterprise...
...cops drove up, observed the proceedings and went into the caretaker's office to keep warm. Since the veterans were deserving 13th Ward boys, no 13th Ward politician was inclined to disturb them. In fact, a few precinct captains hurried around to help. Nobody interfered as the squatters began bringing furniture and clothes and getting their wives and children settled...
Everyone agreed that the new Russian attitude was wonderful, and spoke quietly so as not to disturb it. Even Turkey's Huseyin Ragip Baydur only indirectly referred to Russian demands on the Dardanelles by growling that "arms and military might are powerful [but] world opinion is far more important...
...Algonquin Hotel, where the literati of the '20s (Woollcott, Benchley, etc., etc.) lunched at his famed Round Table, and where for four decades he matched wits with assorted writers and actors, afterwards chronicled their comings & goings in two volumes of anecdotes (Tales of a Wayward Inn, Do Not Disturb}; of heart disease; in Manhattan...