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...does not preclude the use of diplomatic feelers and without the latter a nation may only too easily make itself ridiculous. If the proposal should be accepted and the hazards of the rum-runner increased by nine miles of water, the prohibitionists would be justified in claiming a large feather for their...
Such fraternizing with fur and feather to simple souls is as inspiring as the recent action of the mercenary New York council is distressing. Those citizens even begrudged the expense of burying 55,238 eats, three elephants and an alligator that died struggling against the indifference of the moneyed million of the metropolis...
...veil has been lifted and Mustapha Kemal Pasha speaks for the Turkish nation: " We desire peace! " This is a propitious omen for the future of the new Turkish State, and, backed by real sincerity, it will indubitably raise the prestige of Turkey in the West. It is certainly a feather in the fezzes of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and Ismet Pasha, his Foreign Minister...
...arbitration mere mortals are helpless. The only resource left is an attempt at imagining oneself in the outfit decreed. "Peg-top" trousers and sport coats, Norfolk predominating, with "novelty" effects for street wear, and as capstone and keynote of the whole "a low, flat, derby hat with a small feather, preferably red or grey, tucked neatly on the left side"; and man is complete in all his glory. If the new styles find ready acceptance perhaps it would be well to garb even tender freshmen in somber caps and gowns...
...think this attitude is justified. I do not think that the graduate body as a whole is disloyal to the Crimson. If the graduates are, why should they have so roundly hissed a man who Saturday morning entered a class-room with a blue feather conspicuous? Why should they have added by their presence to the huge cheering crowd which jammed that very mass meeting? Why should they have so intensively craved a Harvard victory and so sincerely rejoiced at the glorious triumph...