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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have sufficient reason to believe has not lived up to the standards of his office. Crass ignorance may be ground for impeachment, or drunkenness or indecent conduct. Improper use of influence should certainly result in impeachment. Ungrammatical Representative Reed of Illinois suggested to the House that "if a lot of you people were to be impeached for some of your conduct in using your influence, there would be a lot of vacant chairs here." (Applause.) But that sally was considered irrelevant. And for this theory of impeachment there is good authority. Chief Justice Taft has said: "The trial...
...Leak, her Great Mop landlady, recognized Lolly's awakening and took her as a matter of course to the very next Witches' Sabbath. It was in a hedged field about midnight, and very vivacious. But village witches and warlocks are a rustic, hysterical lot. They wearied Lolly, before long, and angered her a little. When Satan appeared in a guise suitable to their company, she rebuffed his advances...
UNDERGRADUATE authors seem to have a flair for the shallow and the flippant. Ever since, F. Scott Fitzgerald we have had a series of sophomoric novel writers who spill a lot of ink, twist. Their words into a cross-word puzzle pattern, and sell their products under the name of literature to the thousands who affect. Sophistication because they lack understanding...
...impressed is one with the influence which Russian composers since Glinka have had. To hear about Cut, to be frank, will be at least novel. He is net to be found in this vagabond's musical acquaintance, nor in that of the meandering eneyclopedia which has wandered past a lot of great men without noticing them. Ethics is still engaging Professor Demes' attention in Philosophy 4d, one of my best stalwarts on such an academically uninspiring day as this. In Emerson H, at noon, it will be a treatment of ethics as mathematics, whatever that may be. I shall possibly...
...will hear a lot about Sheila Kaye-Smith's Starbrace (Dutton). She wrote it some years ago while growing up to write The George and the Crown., Isle of Thorns, etc. It's about a lovable but deplorable young Midlands bucko back in England's border-war time, a good tale withal but not on the same counter with mature Kaye- Smithiana...