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...that no gleam of publicity should illumine their plight, student waiters at the Harvard Union have been warned to keep all evidences of dissatisfaction strictly between themselves and the Dinning Halls authorities. In the past the waiters have sought, by petition or discussion, to arrive at a better understanding with their employers, and have each time been granted some trifling concession accompanied by dark hints and sombre intimations. It would suit them far better, the Dining Halls magnates have implied, if professional waitresses were substituted entirely for the present undergraduate helpers. Student waiters, in other words, are employed...
...With a gleam in his eye, but without his flashing smile, he boarded the train that took him back from Hyde Park to Washington. On the train he received his entourage of newshawks. Sitting erect, foursquare, with the bearing of a victor, he answered questions, but declined, with the same gleam in his eye, to speak of his victory. His only post-election comment was a commendatory reference to an editorial by Editor Cleveland Rodgers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.* Whether uncrowned King, Moses, or lover, he was going forth to play his part with the confidence that his part...
...managed to pull M. Citroën out of his deep, dark red. Last week, pale and determined, the Ford of France faced his bankers. They were tired of carrying him, with extension after extension (TIME, March 12). They wanted to foreclose. With a frantic gleam in his dark eyes André Citroën shrilled "Messieurs, on the day I am deprived of control over the business I have built up I shall commit suicide...
...with gleam of intelligence) Hey! I'm supposed to say that...
...least be sure he is not being fooled. And if, following President Conant's plea, those who have the opportunities of the best education attainable continue to think in after life as they have been instructed in college, the light of truth now burning so precariously, should gleam more brightly than ever once the present crisis is passed. Minorities will always govern mankind; why not the educated, instead of the corrupt...