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This time, however, there were no ogling blacks, no steaming coffee, no apples, no diner. What to do? Nurmi's retainers noised his plight about the train. A New York Central brakeman, famed as a heavy eater, sidled up to the famished Finn modestly offered three succulent sandwiches. The engineer gave a bottle of milk, a conductor an apple. Thus was the breach filled. Nurmi left no crumbs. Fed, he stated that he disliked Chicago. He had three grievances: 1) Without notice to him the Coliseum track had been reduced from ten to twelve laps to the mile...
...December American Mercury, the unrest became drastic. Prof. Richard Burton, of the University of Min- nesota, took Why Go To College for a text and preached the exclusion from seats of learning, not only of the "cake eater" (see above), but also of that "monument of misapplied energy" and "machinelike assiduity," the dig, grind, poler, swatter, the "young man or woman of mediocre or worse calibre who lacks initiative, personality, creative energy. . . ." Prof. Burton, a man evidently conversant with culture in many forms, was scornful of that form which is "a sort of contagion; you get it by being exposed...
Ever since leaving the Governorship he has been trying to enter the Senate. In 1914 he lost the nomination to Senator Smith. In 1918 he lost it to Senator Dial; in 1920 to Senator Smith again. In 1924 he won. The Senate has another fire-eater to look forward...
...also taking the part of an Austrian Ambassador who figures largely in the action of the play. He is now acting as coach for the Dramatic-Club. As an undergraduate he was secretary of the club in 1914, and a member of the cast of "Peter Pumpkin Eater", the first Dramatic Club production to be played in New York...
Consequently Messrs, Shaw and Chesterton in arguing about the best breakfast rations displayed the effects of the own very different diets. Mr. Chesterton, being a meat-eater of the first water (if that is possible) contented himself with a rather dogmatic defense, attacking the habits of the Americans of which he probably knows very little--and the undoubted intelligence of Mr. Shaw. The latter vindicated vegetarianism with his usual flashing wit and imagination--and best of all, Americans for once found a satisfactory champion...