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...realm of practical matters, there has been a difference, amounting almost to a hostility, between academic theorists and actual practitioners. Especially has this condition been true in the subject of economics. Professors in Economics and business men, instead of co-operating for their mutual advantage, have been inclined to frown on each others ideas. Such a thing as the Business School, which tries to combine the two, is looked down upon by both...
...Horace Greeley, the American press lost its crusading temper. Editors took it as their business astutely to tell their readers only what they liked to hear. When the old-fashioned virtues became museum-pieces, "Vanity Fair" and "Life" were careful merely to raise an eyebrow but never to frown at the human comedy...
...husband did in the Senate, she will seldom sit down in her seat. Instead she will clasp her hands behind her back and pace, shoulders hunched, up & down the aisles, back & forth in front of the lounges along the Chamber's rear wall. She will purse her lips, frown as though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator. Then she will resume...
Although the Waldorf will frown on rowdy conventions, it will welcome such dignified assemblages as the General Motors Convention in January and that of the American College of Surgeons in February. Loose and liquorish though it always becomes, the Beaux-Arts Ball retains enough arty prestige to have been invited (and obtained) away from the Astor across town. The Canadian Club will have headquarters in the hotel...
...needed one more match and got it the next day when Helen Jacobs, wearing a transparent skirt and an intermittent frown, chopped and drove at Phyllis Mudford's weak backhand till she won, 6-4, 6-2. The match between Helen Moody and Betty Nuthall was nothing like the one they played in 1929, when Mrs. Moody decided the Wightman Cup series by winning 8-6, 8-6. Last week, they played more craftily, put less pace on their shots. Betty Nuthall won the first game at love, held her own till the seventh game when she made four...