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...organization. His conception of a permanent peace organization was squarely in line with the plans submitted to Dumbarton Oaks, but with this difference: "I believe this is a subject which should be talked about widely, earnestly, and publicly. . . . We cannot meet the problems of peace on any hush-hush, pussyfoot basis. . . . That world organization must be the work of many minds. No one man, or three or four men, can shape it. Some 60 nations, great and small, must help shape it, believe in it, join it, and make it work...
Later Dr. Coffin explained his bluntness: "This was my swan song, so I could say what I pleased." Asked if a new moderator could not express himself similarly, he retorted: "Oh, yes. But the number of brethren who pussyfoot is large. What...
Dartmouth's guards, Captain Stan Skang and Jim Briggs, do less scoring than their teammates, but they are potent characters in the backcourt. Where Dartmouth asserts its superiority over anything the Ivy League has to offer is in its style of play. No pussyfoot, stand-and-set, cut-once-a-week Eastern court tactics for these babies; they run all night, cut like deer, and throw one-handed shots from behind their ears in the best Big Ten tradition. It pays...
Instead of fine musicians like Red Allen, Pete Brown, and Sidney Bechet, who have been setting the Ken a-rocking in the past three months, there will be a pussyfoot outfit under Nick Jerrit. Not that the band hasn't possibilities, but playing alongside J. C. Higginbotham and Pete Brown in yesterday's jam session, Jerrit's bunch was dismally uninteresting. There evidently won't be an end to the Sunday sessions, which is heartening. I don't think they'll be as exciting as previously, if for the simple reason that you can't build a whole afternoon...
...brilliant defense, resounding with rich invective against Marlborough's Tory enemies: Harley, St. John, Queen Anne, Dean Swift. But it adds up to something less than Author Churchill intended. What he proves, chiefly, is that Marlborough was merely no worse than his enemies. They signed a pussyfoot treaty at Utrecht but probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government...