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...officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law. The crowd cheered for "Billy" Mitchell. He went into the building bowing to friends hither and yon. In the court room within were batteries of cameras, reporters, learned counsel, and a small fraction of the "public." Promptly at 10 a. m. a grizzled sergeant rose and called "Stand up!" The crowd rose and filed the Court of twelve generals led by Major General Summerall...
...Yale University by President James Rowland Angell: "On entering a college group, one is instantly subjected to social pressure toward conformity. . . .The experience may be distressing, but if you are worthy to be Yale men it will be wholesome. If you have no backbone, you will be carried hither and yon by every kind of fugitive opinion...
...foot-bridge which will lead from the lower reaches of De Wolf Street to the ash-dumps in hither Stadiumland, will not be, as popular belief would have it, a light and swaying bamboo structure spanning the Charles. It will not sag and sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk...
...resist a maid's "Come hither" stare...
...these little flames of talent Copey, the lamp-lighter, tended faithfully (albeit somewhat brusquely on occasion, yet with his Jeremiads over a bad sentence over savored with Attic salt.) And the flames brightened and kindled other flames, as the Divine law of life is; and their lamps moved hither and yon, bringing into places that had been dark before, light and joy and high intelligence and immortal beauty...