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...have made little progress in arbitration since the war. Other countries have made much. In June, 1924, we signed an arbitration treaty with Sweden which followed the old style of reserving questions of national honor and vital interest. As M. Hymans recently told the Belgian Parliament, that formula is outworn. But we have been held back by our failure to take part in the current work of organization...
...Steinway hall was being abandoned. After 59 years of brave nights, this place, where Charles Dickens, in a shaky voice, read from his notes; where Fritz Kreisler, a shaggy boy of 13, made his Manhattan debut; where sang Christine Nilsson, the Swedish Nightingale; this place of tarnished gilt and outworn elegance, smelling of twilight, was to be left to the bludgeonings of the real-estate auctioneer. The inextinguishable appeal of extinguished gallantry wrung the hearts of the human interest writers who briefly noted the fact that Steinway & Sons, famed piano manufacturers, were to move from the old place...
...criticism in this special Class Day number, but the two at hand seem to be the most salient topics. The bit on the opening page, entitled "Class Day Conversational Guide" is quite amusing, but the same cannot be said for the trolley car scene underneath which gives an outworn joke a rather new but dull twist...
...approach to the problem of the causes of American decadence. Although such a general question did not come within the scope of this investigation, it continually presented itself to the members of the expedition as they examined the conditions of society immediately before the fatal drought. The outworn theory of the Analytical Jurists, that the Eighteenth Amendment sapped the morale of the population, is obviously untenable in the light of modern research which has proved that the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Amendments were intended as moral gestures, similar to the Laws of Nature and the Fourteen Points, and thus were carefully...
...text of this reminder was not public, nor is it likely that the public will have immediate knowledge of the replies. In such delicate matters as money, secret diplomacy is not outworn...