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...custom in Congress that a new member shall for a time shrink against the crannied wall, and then later, being seasoned in the Congressional climate, he may open the flowers of his rhetoric. So the custom of the maiden speech has arisen, and last week one of the three ladies of the House, elected more than a year ago and present in Congress since last December, spoke forth in formal words for the first time?and her first words were a reproach. She was Mrs. Julius (Florence) Kahn, whose late husband was one of the military experts of the House...
What could be better than to start my wanderings accompanied by strains of sweet music? Not indeed should I desire the presence of a band to blare its fulsome farewells into my ears; the true aesthetic vagabond must ever shrink from occasions of such banal blasts and boomings. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be in the Music Building to hear the finer, purer strains of Brahms' Violin Sonata when it is played in Professor Spalding's Music...
...degree enters into the aim or purpose of the sport," writes Dr. Kennedy, the process of commercialism has set in... Take away the name of the university and the loyalty of the Alumni from the most skilled football team ever developed and the flooding gate receipts will dwindle and shrink to a trickling rill...
...school of gusto. Wharf-rats, city parks, snowy clustered roofs, great clumping dray horses, seamy faces of dock laborers, pale ladies, prizefighters, gentle landscapes-he painted all with the impulse of a poet and the hand of a realist. To form he gave a significance from which modernists shrink because it is obvious, conservatives because it is daring and which many art-lovers admire because it is both...
...athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school man who now sports a car around Cambridge not only went out for athletics at school but was, perhaps, a very brilliant athlete. What reason have we to suppose that because he buys a car at college, his legs shrink to the size of spindles, while the proportions of his chest are reduced to concavity...