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Thomas F. Logan is just the opposite of the aggressive, hammering, obviously successful Lasker. He is slimmer, fairer, quieter -not smoother, for dynamos of the Lasker type are well-oiled-but gentler, more subtly persuasive. His training was that of a journalist-economist, after a genteel boyhood and Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives...
...lady is Lanice Bardeen; her home, a New England college town; her "Work," painting and writing under the genteel urban sponsorship of her Cousin Pauline, a sparse-bosomed virgin "intensely moved" by Abolition, parlor feminism and the Great Minds of the day. Lanice has "evinced genius" in articles for Godey's Ladies' Book, and Cousin Pauline burns to enroll her among the Great Minds-profound Mr. Emerson, droll Dr. Holmes, dowdy Mrs. Stowe (Harriet Beecher), majestic Professor Longfellow...
...good English custom lets no man, however sunken in estate, go undefended at his trial by law. The judge told the prisoner to look about and choose whom he would from the gathering of barristers that lounged there in genteel boredom waiting for their clients' names to be read off. Whom he chose would have to serve him, willy-nilly...
...Significance. The species of male vegetable herein exhibited has dragged out its parasitic existence in every garden of genteel society that ever grew. To Author Parrish, great credit for supplying her specimen with logical antecedents, convincing contemporaries and a setting so carefully cultivated that its chokers and crinolines are not only seen and heard but almost smelled...
This conference stands out among the many offered to students this summer because it gets capable men, instead of just one or two attractive "headliners," to lead it, and because it avoids unlimited student discussion as the best method of conveying information. Schools which are merely genteel opportunities for practice in debating should label themselves as such, instead of making rash promises to "Solve Modern Problems of Education...