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With the price of bread running into billions a loaf the German people have had to get used to counting in thousands of billions. This, according to some German physicians, brought on a new nervous disease known as "zero stroke," or "cipher stroke," which may, however, be classed with neuritis as cipheritis...
...make-up that I wear in The Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well off as most beggars...
Self-made men who have risen from the estate of newspaper boys to the estate of financial magnates appear to derive extraordinary pleasure from setting down a college course as a kind of sinecure for enjoying an extra "loaf" before rolling up the sleeves for real work. The attitude has been put into words in the leading editorial of the last number of the Alumni Bulletin. "Are we not in danger of neglecting to impress upon the world the fact that a college is a place to which young men are sentenced to do four years of hard labor...
...fails to wish that such a system were practiced in this country. The shortcomings of our civil service system are proverbial, but it is a novel suggestion to remedy them by abolishing the system altogether. It is at least conceivable that employes guaranteed their situations by politicians would loaf on the job fully as much as those who have earned those positions by examinations. Before shooting the cow because it gives no more milk it might be just as well to see if there is no less drastic remedy, and if the ailment is wholly the creature's fault anyway...
...evident that election to the CRIMSON is based upon ability shown by work done. Nor does editorship mean an opportunity to loaf. This is not a loafers' organization. Editors, whatever department they are in, have assignments to cover...