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...clients to sell all their British stocks and buy stock of U. S. or colonial enterprises. No sentimentalist, he did not even palliate his statement in the manner of the Stock Exchange Gazette (London) which declared: "Hard times get the best out of individuals and out of nations. . . . The pent-up energies of this nation will not be restrained forever...
...began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass and South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's George and Washington's Dill joined the hue and cry. For three full days with crowded galleries, the Senate Chamber rumbled and roared with pent-up liberal resentment against judicial conservatism. Always the issue remained larger than Mr. Hughes' appointment...
...steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...
...escape from the growling > waters which had driven them from their homes. They had been picked up by the Government launch Pelican, which lay just outside the Knowlton's Point levee, waiting to transfer them to the steamer Wabash, approaching from up the river. Suddenly the levee broke. Pent waters boiled through the gap, sweeping the Pelican with them. Caught in the channel formed by the break, the Pelican twisted, spun, sank. All on board were drowned...
This year the exodus may be unusually glad, for students may use their vacation to celebrate Easter as well as Patriot's Day. How seldom it is that indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...