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...jury will sit for months upon furniture from Michigan. Earnest debates will only be interrupted long enough to bolt down meals prepared with advertised ingredients. That schoolgirl complexion will fade, and unkempt beards, which would defy, the most formidable blade, will hide the beauty of late model collars...
...fade-out follows rapidly. One assumes that Capt. Daingerfield picks up his hat and stick, and leaves in a dignified manner. Rita falls into Haggerty's arms. "'Oh, you are too strong,' she confessed with a half sigh. 'Too strong,' she repeated in a whisper, 'Thank...
...more of a student's college where not only does curriculum come first, but extra times goes to following out a favorite bit of erudite research-- to reading or to writing. Extra-curriculum activities and over-organization go hand in hand. We would not be surprised to see them fade away before many years have gone by. --The Princetonian...
...their best efforts failed to give the touch of credibility which is carried in a newspaper paragraph like this. As long as there are still truths stranger than fiction, there is hope for the survival of the "dime novel" and the "movie" adventure films which have been suffering a fade-out lately from poverty of material...
...could retain the fervor and devotion that our young men displayed in the war, and which they would put forth again in a national crisis; if we could retain that spirit in the slow, hard labors of peace; if their exaltation should never fade in the light of common day, we could be the greatest people that ever dwelt upon the earth. This is not to be achieved by men's comparing themselves among themselves, or measuring themselves by an average standard; but by living up to the best they know and measuring themselves by their own highest aspiration...