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...does the faculty relish this task. They are forced to expend considerable time and energy simply to give the dean's office a rather uncertain scale of the quality: of their students...
...little older but just as alert as his self-portrait (see above). Born 50 years ago in Manhattan, he was named, by parents who loved literature, after the great Dr. Johnson. He went to the College of the City of New York (1899) and, like most Manhattanites who relish pencil and brush, studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students' League. In 1904 he married; he has two daughters. For a long time he did oil portraits, exhibiting widely, winning academic honors. But, says he, "I had to commercialize my art by pleasing aunts and uncles, grandmothers...
Dowagers with noses for good blood relish the royal whiff in Alba's surname of Stuart Fitz-James. England's witty James II, while Duke of York, amused himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish dukedom of Alba. Except that his lineage and sporting tastes are almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct...
...Mayor James John Walker and everyone he met. Friends scheduled every hour of his time, to luncheons, matinees, dinners, surprise soirees. In Washington he was received and cared for by his good friend and Palo Alto neighbor, Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover and other members of the Bohemian Club relish, among other famed Folger stunts, his dialog between two Chinese missionaries. Another famed Folgerism: preventing Morris Gest from making an after-dinner speech by appearing disguised as a voluble German waiter and claiming to be Max Reinhardt, the Miracle...
...Germans themselves are short-sighted enough to desire freedom from supervision, even at great cost. A bank which may some day rule the world's finance is a tied-up asset compared with the solid relish of being master in one's own house...