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...Girdler should be disarmed and restrained by the Government before he turns the steel districts into a bloody shambles and looses all the pent-up forces of human passion...
...read and speed but not the science of upbringing. Perhaps the public feels that Harvard men will make poor fathers, or no fathers at all, after seeing them emerge from Widener, bleary eyed and exhausted. Perhaps it feels students should have some other outlet besides riots for their pent-up emotions. Perhaps it doesn't feel...
...version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent-up passion, afraid to let herself loose...
...radical, gathered in the stately chambers of the New York Bar Association to elect temporary local Guild officers. Looking down from their gilt frames, first U. S. Chief Justice John Jay and 19 past presidents of the Bar Association beheld a scene of fine parliamentary confusion, as scores of pent-up legal spirits strug gled to express themselves. In a two-hour session, highlighted by a plea "to call in a few lawyers" to restore order, Paul Kern, Manhattan Civil Service Commissioner, was elected president, two steering committees were appointed to act until the national convention...
...silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent-up wrath of Woodrow Wilson's onetime associates burst forth in dancing fury...