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...many years the Reds, under one name or another, have been gulping at the fountain of American civilization. Fertile soil, high wages, the protection of the law--all these, together with numerous other advantages offered by America alone, have been their privilege without one jot of sacrifice on their part. And in the face of all this they continuously vomit a volley of contemptuous statements about our government. They secretly concoct plans for the overthrow of law and order. It is to be regretted that there are some ministers and editors in the country who, in spite of absolute proof...
...certain that such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit as Ponce de Leon and the explorers of old spent their lives seeking the fountain of youth, and so far with exactly similar results...
...bound on Derby avenue, desiring to go to the Bowl, will find parking space on Central avenue, the centre of the city may be reached only via Forrest street and Congress avenue; automobiles desiring to leave the centre of the city for the Bowl use Elm street, Whalley avenue. Fountain street and McKinley avenue, to the parking space; automobiles will be slowed to run north only on College street between Crown and Elm streets. Returning from the game, automobiles desiring to got to the centre of the city return via Whalley avenue and Elm street using the north side...
...colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling it theatrical, that most holy thing, austerity...
...Fountain pens are too great a convenience to be excluded from a library, but if used carelessly they permanently deface floors and tables, for ink-stains cannot be successfully removed from marble floors, cork carpets and polished...