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Other speakers, taking windy advantage of their prerogative to state national objectives unchecked, met with less consideration. As in the "real" League, ushers were supplied to carry messages from national group to national group. Comely Radcliffe maidens, cleverly clad in white, which contrasted flatteringly with the dull winter garb of their visiting sisters, flitted constantly from contingent to contingent, often transporting billet dour or notes reading "Just to make use of the usher." So the League dispelled ennui...
...first thing Dr. Griffin does when he is out of sight is to wrap his body, which remains solid, in garb as unprepossessing as he can find. Well aware that when he removes the bindings from his face or the trousers from his legs, there will be nothing there, he takes pleasure in frightening the host of a village inn by doing so. Presently he kills a policeman and then, intoxicated by the certainty that he can commit crimes with no possibility of being detected, he wrecks a train, kills another young doctor whom he has forced...
...Armyists tramp lustily through the streets, Hindus is forced to contrast their robust health, good, clean uniforms, and strong shoes with the dark, patched garb of the proletariat. However, though trying his best to achieve impartiality, the author cannot avoid partisanship any more than all the other commentators who have flooded Russia and regurgitated their findings to us. Throughout the book Hindus impresses upon the reader his own firm conviction that despite all difficulties and whatever the cost, the Revolution will sweep on, brushing from its path all impediments, crushing all opposition. "The Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea...
...British Commons, telling them that "it is useless for me to remain here for months unless the attitude (of the various delegations) changes." Disheartening as is this indication of the inflammatory material waiting for a fire-bug, it is nonetheless pleasing to see Mr. Henderson take on the unaccustomed garb of realism; he wears it with the surprising air of a tweeded sophomore, but that he wears is at all is enough...
This coming Saturday afternoon the Army band will parade on Soldiers Field in all its resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create...