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...Prince Ito ("the Bismarck of Japan"). One jokester voted "Give us rice!" But the Government of the Old Fox felt so strong that its censor passed these little jokes. The Old Fox could say: "A vote for the Seiyukai hastens the return of prosperity," while the opposition could only mutter innocuously: "One cannot feed on a fictitious boom...
...less reason than usual to symbolize smilingly Health, Purity and Nourishment. But there has been no gloom around the big, clean plant at Hershey, Pa. Those neighboring Mennonites who did not join the hegira to Brazil in 1928 still sniff the sweetish air, still curse their feeble appetites and mutter about "da chockle shtink" that permeates the neighborhood. Founder Milton Snavely Hershey, a ruddy-faced man of 74, still walks through his 50 acres of factory floor space, observing, commanding, happily nibbling. For while Hershey's sales have tapered, the prices of raw cocoa, sugar and milk have dropped even...
...becoming a little bored with football. The sweaty exorcists (who in later life become go-getters and promoters) are having less and less success in the eastern schools at their self imposed jobs of routing the students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the square and mutter gibberish in union the night before a so called big game. This Medieval hocus-pocus known as "Getting Behind the Team," is being left behind in favor of an attitude which, in itself, may prove the most effective balance wheel to the sport. The undergraduates to whom I have spoken...
...Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk, not the incidental pastoral melodrama you will remember from Author Bullett's book. The story opens in prehistoric England, in the "squat" (hut-settlement) of Koor. Koor, hitherto invincible patriarch, is aging, and the young hunters are beginning to mutter to each other. Soon the inevitable happens. The tale suddenly skips to 1750; Koor's squat is now the drowsy village of Marden Fee, its people outwardly a placid yokelry. But in many of them still runs the blood of Koor. When Gipsy Noke kills the highwayman he instinctively...
When Sir William receives his D. C. L. degree he may mutter casually his favorite expression: "Not too bad, not too bad!" And he may reflect that his potent U. S. competitors Henry Ford, President Alfred Pritchard Sloan of General Motors, John North Willys, Walter Percy Chrysler, Errett Lobban Cord, have no such degree...