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Well pleased at this rhetorical flourish, Lady Astor descended from the platform prepared to make her exit from the hall in quiet triumph. Instead, unemployed males surged about her car, demanding that she fulfill her pledge-valiantly attempting to call the Rt. Hon. Lady's bluff. Upon reaching home, the harassed Viscountess was "deluged with letters...
...Flourish. With the treaties properly signed, sealed and berib-boned,† the assembly was formally declared terminated by Sir Austen, but not until another round of speeches had been indulged in. M. Briand's address was the only one either greatly moving or notably significant. Rising to his full height, he cried: "At last the spirit of solidarity takes the place of that of distrust and suspicion. . . . Opposite me I behold the German delegates. That does not mean that I do not remain a good Frenchman! They are good Germans! But in the light of these treaties...
...present award, has in its favor the success of a similar practice at Yale and other universities, as well as the obvious fairness of special recognition of successful teams by the University. It is well known that many sports which at Harvard maintain a tenuous existence at best, flourish in other places. At most of these institutions some such plan as that suggested here is in effect. Whether or not there is any connection between these two facts, it will be the new committee's duty to consider...
...faith of Jesus Christ we lay this foundation stone, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, that here true faith and brotherly love may flourish and abound, and that this place may be a house of prayer for all people, forever to the glory and praise of Christ our Lord...
...afternoons while pink palms grew moist and socks crept slowly down to form a wad at the heels of minute dancing slippers? Not at all. The dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed, box-angled, snake-hipped; 45 degrees to the right is the step, then 45 to the left...