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...hear the factulty talk, one would think that mayhem or worse had been committed. Yet one cannot help thinking that if the faculty were to devise fairer methods of testing knowledge, there would be more student honor New York World...
Thomas F. Logan is just the opposite of the aggressive, hammering, obviously successful Lasker. He is slimmer, fairer, quieter -not smoother, for dynamos of the Lasker type are well-oiled-but gentler, more subtly persuasive. His training was that of a journalist-economist, after a genteel boyhood and Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives...
...tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger and fairer sister, coming back to build wings on the palace to shelter his three chief attachments. His ever-delicate actions and long, exceedingly elevated conversations, set down like tracery on rice-paper by Lady Murasaki long, long ago, are anglicized with great felicity by scholarly Translator Waley...
...Henderson '28, has kept even pace with this fairer playmate in the number of encores he has evoked from all the audiences before when the show has been given. His playing on the goofus and on the harpsicord has drawn forth unceasing amusement and applause...
...hung about her and listened until the moon was high above Charmington and the lights in the passing ten o'clock express made a serpentine suggestion of reality in the passing below the cemetery. And then, refreshed, they went home to dream of pastures pekinese and anti-poodle, pastures fairer than Charmington and much more honest. And they remembered the joke which has long made Charmington famous, a remark of Cartrack herself--"You can't teach a pekinese new profanity...