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...generally intolerant of the legal point of view which Mr. Lansing represented by training and inheritance. This ignorance and disregard of the President's for the juristic side of the negotiations took a curious twist in his notion that a preliminary treaty or modus viviendi containing a skeleton of the League of Nations would not have to be ratified by the Senate...
...Burroughs are a thoroughly conventional, conservative English family, living in the small, staid town of Knotley ("on-Thames," undoubtedly). Their irreproachable existence is rudely disturbed one afternoon by the return of William, the Black Sheep; or, as William aptly characterizes himself, "I'm the family skeleton; can't you hear my bones rattle?" Unable to abide the domineering influence of his father or his interminable demands for "an explanation" of each wayward act, William had fled to America fifteen years before; now he fails to find the fatted calf awaiting--in fact he receives a decidedly frosty welcome from...
CAMP KNOX, KY., June 21.--With the arrival late tonight of the last Harvard contingent and 15 men from Cornell, Battery E, the unit to which Harvard is attached, will be practically at full strength. The men now in camp have been uniformed, equipped and organized into skeleton batteries, which are being filled out, as quickly as students arrive from the various colleges...
...obtain a knowledge of the individual preferences at the three colleges from among the presidential nominees, the returns from the voting will also be used to form the basis for the organization of Republican and Democratic Clubs which will be formed at the three universities next fall. Skeleton organizations for these clubs will probably be drawn up before the end of this year...
...which prohibition will not be absolute and alcohol will not be wholly shorn of its powers. It is possible that the members of the clubs have provided against an immediately dry future. There may be for a time club dinners that will be reminiscent of the past. But the skeleton will be obtrusive at the feast. No one who drinks now can be happy; no one who lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer a conktail to another in sheer exuberance...