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...hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this is enough to enrage his predecessor. Says Charlie McCarthy: "This is the meanest trick you ever played on me. . . . I'll mow him down...
...Revisiting my native land after an absence of 40 years," see Rome fiddle while Italy burns at both ends-in Africa and at home. A six-month drought compels the peasants to mow down their stunted winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have...
Dean seemed to want to know more about "this guy Conant," so he was informed of the Hicks question. This was a little too baffling, however, and he was more interested in telling his interviewer about how he was "gonna mow 'em down" after ten days or so. The pride of Deanville also had no comment to make on the Littauer School of Public Administration...
With a good pick up on your car you can hit a pedestrian at twenty paces.* There are more taxi drivers than students, and more yard cops than professors. In President Wigglesworth's time the college played a man $2000 a year to mow grass in front of Lehman Hall, which was then a stable. The man's name was Harvard, and he had a square wooden leg, and consequently when he came to the end of the lawn, he could only turn a sharp corner. These sharp corners formed a square, which came to be called "Harvard's Square...
From electric chairs in Eliot House to red and green monsters that mow the hardy grass of the Yard, it is apparent that Harvard is producing more and more devices and inventions calculated to make life either simple or complex, according to the point of view of the gullible layman...