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...neighbor was one Stevens, pioneer realtor, robust, energetic, a veritable fanatic on exercise which often found vent in "sunrise lawn-mowing." One day Lapowski burst into Stevens' office demanding that he (Stevens) desist from his sunrise activities or permit him to hire his mowing done at a more sane and reasonable hour. In explaining the outburst to the nonplussed Stevens, who was about "to go into action," Lapowski said his wife thought him lazy because he liked to lay abed and every time Stevens went to mowing at "so ungodly an hour" all he heard was "Sam, Stevens...
...protest against Militarism and Imperialist War was to take the form of an Armistice Day demonstration which was to precede the parade of the Cadets by more than fifteen minutes. In fact, we feel that the cadets should be in sympathy with our anti-war ideology, as should every sane human being...
...admission by Harry B. Putnam, chairman of the state liquor control committee, that a twenty-one year age limit upon the sale of intoxicating liquor will almost certainly be embodied in the legislation now being framed is discouraging to those who had hoped for the drafting of a sane law. Although the feeling of the Committee in general is favorable to an eighteen-year age limit, it confesses at the same time that the older limit must be adopted in order to placate the drys, and for no other reason...
...between America and the Soviet Maritime Provinces might contain irritating implications if Japanese invasion caused it to be broken off. The howl which would ascend to the starry skies of our Western states, ably supported by the Yellow Peril agitators of California and elsewhere, might put even a moderately sane Washington government temporarily out of its head. Such things have occurred before. CASTOR...
...general tone of your correspondence from Japan is hatefully cynical-and the effect is to make the Japanese seem to be a jumpy, excited, silly people, instead of being the sane, fine, courteous, peace-loving people they really...