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Down Hanover is another legitimate skin show, the Casino. The Casino, less conscious of tradition than the Old Howard, offers "Burlesk," rather than the more genteel "Burlesque." Boston's famed Watch and Ward Society and other public indignation groups take little heed of either the Casino or the Old Howard...
...think Krick's methods are all too effective. They blame him for rained-out ball games, flash floods, dry spells, chicken-killing hailstorms, and all manner of crop damage. Beyond issuing a few over-the-shoulder rejoinders (sharp to the scientists, soothing to the citizenry), he pays little heed to such infidels, and goes on about his missionary work like Billy Graham gathering converts...
...windows, "built in Texas by Texans." When one woman said to me that "Texans are wonderful people," it seemed like a refrain of what another American told me--"Americans are good chaps." This seems to be a rather widespread belief. It does help to explain why Americans pay little heed to a lot of criticism--after all what does it matter what they do if fundamentally they are good chaps...
...also said, "if they don't go along with us, I say we go alone." He took issue with the judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the whole broad strategy of the Korean war, yet advised the Senators: "I think that this committee ought to heed what they say very carefully. They are all very fine, competent...
John Hancock was one of the College's poorer treasurers. "He refused to make accountings or to heed pointed suggestions that he resign," writes Cabot "Finally, when he was away from Boston as President of the Continental Congress one of the Harvard tutors was sent to him by the Corporation to receive the papers and securities in his hands, and succeeded in getting from him 18,000 pounds sterling of the College securities...