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Appropriations. Meanwhile Congress had been grinding the unimpressive but all important grist of appropriations which will keep the Government functioning to June...
Those two bulwarks of education in the East, the Universities of Yale and of Harvard, have furnished grist for many a generality. Harvard men, whose impression of Yale may have been limited to a distorted glimpse of Harkness Tower as beheld from a motor car on the way to the Yale Bowl, are usually quite ready to proffer their opinions of Yale's scholastic, athletic and social systems; Yale men not infrequently subject the "red bellies" of Harvard to a voluble and humorous dissection. Last week a Yale man and a Harvard man published their views of their respective...
...radical program for farm legislation, and was waiting for further reports on farm conditions. On the World Court, disarmament, debt funding, a new Ambassador to Japan (to succeed the late Mr. Bancroft), he was "receptive" rather than informative. The correspondents were obliged .'to retire with little grist for their papers. ¶ Shortly after Admiral Eberle's visit, correspondents announced that the President would soon have discouraging reports as to the possibility of effecting further economies in the administration of the War and Navy Departments. Without impairing its efficiency, the War Department can find only...
...term 'patriotic' with a general interest in the prohibition problem. The function of this new alliance is to interpret each to the other so that these two, largely independent, parallel streams of moral and civic power, may both be utilized in turning all wheels that grind a grist of Americanism common to both...
...with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected in such a book as this. Other nameless ones who have never had the misfortune to furnish grist for a news item will chortle with glee at Big Lord Fauntleroy (a comic story), Sssssssssshhhh (a satiric story), Spring Flow'rets or Womanhood Eternal (a sex story), will marvel at the ingenious craftsmanship, vociferate their appreciation of the smarty wit of this Punchinello, Connell. If, sometimes, they prickle...