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...occasion when a window blind was slamming at Radcliffe. He marched across the room, raised the window, and threw the blind to the ground a story below, remarking "There's more than one way to stop a blind when it slams." But he was not so full of pent-up fury as the quivering young women supposed...
...Local 751 of the Aeronautical Mechanics Union, an affiliate of A. F. of L. Two months ago, the editor of the local's house organ, Aero Mechanic, got out a "sneak" edition loaded with dynamite. In it young, nervous Editor Clifford A. Stone had packed all the pent-up resentment of months. He charged that...
...noises are more thrilling than the shrieks of pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master...
Fortnight ago, the long fight ended in fireworks on the House floor. Gentle Bob Ramspeck, victory in sight, got tough. He took the floor for 18 explosive minutes, with his Georgia drawl grown corrosive, laid about him with two years' pent-up wrath. When he was through, spoilsmen's bodies were figuratively heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain...
...chased ghosts and phantoms, looked backward to bemoan old mistakes and ancient blunders. Greater sign of weakness was that-though no longer was a crisis doubted-no great national program came into being that could give each man his place in a giant effort, give a creative release to pent-up emotions...