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...Wilson," is Mr. Lodge's principal assertion. This is supplemented by averments to the effect that the former president had great personal ambitions without the nerve or daring to fight for them; that he was neither well-educated nor well-read; that he was so impudent as to invent phrases of his own when he could just as well have quoted from the classics; and that he was forced to resign from the presidency of Princeton...
...were frankly prejudiced against Bernard Nedell when we found him cast for the role which belonged so logically to Houston Richards, but his performance was good enough to stifle our prejudice almost completely. It is one of his best characterizations. Miss Hitz has as her chief task to invent several different ways to show that she was frightened, and she fulfilled it admirably. Miss Layng was Mammy Pleasant to the life...
...others' whims and weaknesses--a situation which engenders self-reliance if nothing else. But in America I have been asked to formulate methods and recite the Tutorial Code and Catechism, and I very much fear that in confusion and in shame of my inefficiency I have been tempted to invent them. In practice, a great deal depends upon the individual tutor's strength or weakness, permanent or periodical; and much more depends on the pupil's capacity to excite the tutor's anger, interest or fear according to the nature of the essay of the following discussion. Only two rules...
...French were furious. L'Eclair, Paris journal, fumed against the "Boche brain which could invent such a lie," defied the Germans to prove the story...
...Inventor That Doesn't Invent...