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Thus last week spoke shrill, wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kai-shek to troops at his capital, Nanking. Shrilly he continued...
...sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark. On rare occasions, dreadfully unforgettable, the pumper might lag from exhaustion "and wreck a full throated anthem or a shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward for faithful service varied from nothing (except the privilege of sitting out of sight during the sermon) to Boston...
...roamed about the house, sat in the Lincoln study, played with the six presidential dogs, watched the Hoover grandchildren from a distance, departed at 6 p. m. Last week in a "folksy" broadcast of his experiences, he declared: "Within the White House you can hear the shrill, excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather...
Yale's stormy petrels, whose shrill cries have lately uncovered many sins, have been busy unearthing new terrors beneath Harkness Gothicana. One of the latest skeletons in the new cupboard is traditional "Tap Day" which for some time has been the occasional target of campus with as well as of crusading journalism of both conservative and radical timbre. "The Alumni Weekly" demanding a new society system based on the new housing conditions strikes at the method of soliciting membership as being the most demoralizing of the old ways. "The Harkness Boot" printed an article entitled "The Elks in Our Midst...
Just as wasp-waisted President Chiang Kaishek was about to shrill a speech of welcome to his "People's Congress" at Nanking; just as the President's northern ally, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, swooped down from Tientsin in his Ford plane, just as the party was going to begin last week, BANG-Revolution in Canton...