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Last fortnight in the New York State Legislature, the Baumes Crime Commission sought to sharpen the teeth of existing Baumes laws with 84 new recommendations, to make parole and bail harder, conviction easier, take deadly weapons from the hands of criminals. At the same time 38 bills to make the recommendations effective were introduced in the legislature...
...doesn't. But for Mr. Tilden it is a different matter, as he has just left the tennis firmament and is in a new world which needs conquering. He knows what zest a really ambitious tournament adds to the occasion and hence is out to sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome of Mr. Tilden in the event, that his all-American acting team should be chosen, it only on the basis of Critic Benchley's cogent comment that Tilden could probably coin more cash with Pyle's than with his own theatrical...
Tall and muscular, he kept his hairless, perfumed bronze body immaculate, especially his teeth, "white as hailstones," which stood far apart from assiduous picking. He eschewed jewelry but put antimony on his eyebrows to sharpen his sight. He let a black wilderness of beard riot down to conceal one thin line of fur on his deep chest, but he clipped his mustache. On special occasions he shaved his poll. Divinely conferred, a large mole adorned his back...
...this man and to this man's government it is now proposed to present $1,500,000,000 of the American taxpayers' money. It is to fatten this monster and strengthen his arm, to sharpen his sword, to enlarge his cannon, to increase his war fleets, that it is proposed to settle with Italy in a manner that is nothing but grand larceny perpetrated upon the American people...
...public land states. It is here that curricula have been littered with every branch of information known to man. The liberal college has held to the doctrine that not matter but method counts, that the study of renaissance architecture or romantic literature, the classics or a science, may sharpen wits and awaken wisdom more effectively than technical training in the tools of the trade itself. Even at Harvard the elective system broke down, without a counterbalance and concentration and distribution were introduced. But the ultimate upshot has not been that chaos of curriculum tinkering of which President Frank complains...