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...women. Mr. Lesher passed on to his chief, President John D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., responsibility for the company's newspaper advertisements of last fortnight, which asserted that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced." Mr. Lesher said: "Perhaps we are unfortunate in that our material is prosaic and that of the other side is sensational...
...This is a big night. Three million dollars' worth of boxing bugs are gathering around a ring at Soldiers' Field, Chicago. Here come some of the preliminary boys. . . . Oho, that was a fast one . . .that hurt. . . . Well, they tried pretty hard . . . boxing is a prosaic business. ... I came up from St. Louis today in an airplane . . . that's real . . . you and the pilot and God ALL ALONE TOGETHER. . . . Have you seen Eddie Dowling's show? . . . Another preliminary . . . that is better . . . oho . . . hard left...
Should his critics read "The Church Nobody Knows" they would find Bruce Barton making the following points in his own prosaic but clear and modest way about those traditional strangers, Business and the Church...
Less brilliant, more statistical than M. Tardieu's new book is a detailed analysis* of U. S. institutions by Andre Siegfried, Professor at the School of Political Sciences, Paris. He says of President Coolidge: "Small, uninspiring . . . dislikes games, prefers prosaic walks . . . skillful politician . . . eager to do what is right." Of the Governor of New York, Alfred E. Smith, Professor Siegfried thinks: "Excellent Governor . . . born in the slum quarters . . . prestige mainly owing to his origin...
Competition of a highly developed sort has been introduced into the business of endowment fund campaigns. The old order changeth and the prosaic pleas, "give for alma mater", and "for the interests of higher education", bow before the potency of an appeal to the sporting instinct. Stipulations and conditions involving mathematical gymnastics come not single handed but in troops, forming a kind of geometrio progression, as the Law School Fund swells. Competitive giving pays best...