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There is no crime in paying one hundred dollars to try to be amused at a night-club, but it is ridiculous to agree with Vanity Fair and the New Yorker that it is sophistication to do so. Rather it is the sheerest childishness. It is too bad someone cannot be spanked...
...sheerest sadism prevails throughout typical Balkan police stations. . . . Brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, children and parents: they are flogged by the police before one another's eyes upon the least pretense of obtaining information...
...Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible for the capital ships of the Allied navies to keep the Germans bottled up and the sea-lanes...
...average Iowa farmer would trade his fat acres without boot, could exist a day without it. Taken out of the atmosphere of snobbery, like a fish out of water, he would simply give three gasps, two flops and expire. To talk about a democratic king is to talk the sheerest nonsense. There could no more be a democratic king than a live dead man. The terms are mutually exclusive. A king implies snobs...
...time when the lucky run of Lamar secured Princeton a touch-down. The playing of Princeton during the first half was disorganized and lacking spirit. In the second half she improved considerably, but even then Yale's playing was superior. The score was in favor of Princeton by the sheerest luck. But in all the beauties of the game Yale far excelled. Could the game be played over to-day it is the almost universal opinion that the chances would be two to one in favor of Yale's winning...