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University of Michigan prom trotters were under the surveillance of policemen stationed at every exit, in each smoking room and lobby of the gymnasium, lest some reveller take a drink...
Another man might contemplate the chief justiceship with some reluctance. Not so Charles Evans Hughes. It is a lonely job?one of the world's few entirely exalted and lonely life-jobs. By custom the Chief Justice is hedged off from free and easy association with his fellow beings lest they in some inexplicable manner corrupt his integrity, warp his judicial soul. Chief Justice White sought solitude to the point of never accepting a Washington invitation, of avoiding all official functions. For all his surface affability Chief Justice Taft observed much the same caution in his daily contacts. He shunned...
...sedate is New York's Century Association that its officers once prohibited bridge games in its austere clubhouse (43rd Street just west of Fifth Avenue) lest the muffled excitement of such play disturb the tranquillity of other members. Organized by William Cullen Bryant in 1847 to promote "the advancement of art and literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson...
Theological concepts of pagan origin are somewhat out of favor just at present, but these gentlemen must surely live in fear and dread lest the Divine Eve-should open earlier than usual some morning and catch them in the act of getting a shine on Sunday...
...five principal U. S. delegates-Stimson, Adams, Reed, Robinson, Morrow-and their wives the Star said, "The men seem to be fatherly, homely folk and their wives motherly and even more homely." Lest it should be misunderstood, the Star added, for the benefit of visitors weak in the King's English, that "The connotation of 'homely' changes in crossing the Atlantic, and in England has of course no reference to facial appearance...