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...Harvard I expected to find a certain dignified aloofness, as different from Oklahoma's "howdy-ness" as is a Boston debutante from an Osage maiden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OKLAHOMAN DESCRIBES TYPICAL HARVARD MAN | 1/29/1930 | See Source »

...witty James II, while Duke of York, amused himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish dukedom of Alba. Except that his lineage and sporting tastes are almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes, the Duke has never held states- manly office or high military rank, is primarily a crony of the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Gay Grandee | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...assured him it was out of the kind- ness of my heart that I wished him to continue his efforts, as I was sure he would succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden Tattles | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...believe that the Federal Government today is the best conducted big busi ness in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget Bouquet | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...criticism and defense, pro and con have come from professors, from busi- ness men, from free-lance writers in Greenwich Village or Stuyvesant Square whose closest connection with a college has been a Row ZZZ seat at the Yale-Maryland game in 1922. The undergraduate press, on its mettle, has oiled its cylinders and turned out bales of stuff. But in most cases a single college, or colleges as a whole, has had to take punishment from individuals whose position made it possible for them to lift up their voice and be sure that it would be heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Colleges | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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