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...young banker becomes a big banker, supported by his mistress' advice. Going to Europe on a Reparations commission, he takes his mistress on one deck, his wife & children on another. One of the children attempts to pay off the mistress. Boles arrives in time to realize that her small linger is worth more to him than children, wife, fortune and career. He says: "She has taken only that part of me which none of you has seemed to want, or the existence of which you have even bothered about; and for it she has sacrificed everything that a woman...
...principal arguments advanced against student waiting are: that it would benefit at best only five percent of the undergraduate body, while affecting the daily routine of the whole; waited upon by their fellow students, men would hesitate to complain of poor service, and to linger at the end of a meal; that between the two extremes: a government-financed institution, where low tuition attracts mediocre students, and one where every man pays full tuition himself, some line must be drawn, and that since Harvard gives more scholarships than any other institution, has a larger proportion of men not able...
...attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes he had made. He did not sense the applause which came afterwards until one of the soloists, a Fraulein Caroline Linger, turned him around so that his eyes could take it in. The music passed into the background then. The demonstration took a sudden, emotional turn as the people started shouting, beating their palms together still harder in an effort to assure the fierce-looking little man of their sympathy, their appreciation...
...concert platform, bald-headed Violinist Mischa Elman wrote a letter last month from St. Jean-de-Luz, France, to his father in Manhattan. Made public last week, the letter told how Violinist Elman had given a party for Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin ''which will long linger in the memory of those who were there." Cinemactor Chaplin told Edward Prince of Wales "what a wonderful time he had at my house . . . The Prince, who came here for a vacation, and being evidently tired to be constantly with the same group of people, told Chaplin that he would like...
Much of Business Adrift is quotable, for Dean Donham writes forcefully, shuns frills. Sections over which the reader's eye and mind are likely to linger include...