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Gustav V of Sweden, royalty's liveliest octogenarian and survivor of countless tennis matches, motoring home from a hunting trip, drove smack into a water-filled ditch, climbed out scatheless...
...CRIMSON seems to have found it good "copy" to descend to the level of Hearst editorializing. There are such sentences as: The years of lopsided representation, of murky and hazy financial activity, of membership practices that smack of Sigma Chi and the Whiffenpoofs, have neutralized the Council's sincere efforts at constructive leadership...
...making by conjure has achieved just the reverse. Ten years later this product of an elite father and an indifferent mother finds itself in greater disrepute than its' pre-1936, constitution-less predecessor. Ten years of lopsided representation, of murky and hazy financial activity, of membership practices that smack of Sigma Chi and the Whiffenpoofs, have neutralized the Council's sincere efforts at constructive leadership. Ten years in which nearly 50 percent of all members got their start through appointment to one of the unelected Freshman Committees and, with this initial advantage, proceeded through four years of Harvard politics...
...consistently through two decades of the American tunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly bank on the smartness, sophistication, or schmaltz of another day, differently tempered--or perhaps the Messrs. Kaufman and Schwartz are, plainly and bluntly, "written out." Whatever the explanation, "Park Avenue" has tunes and situations that smack far too conspicuously of past playgoing...
Finally-bingo!-a shiny new sedan piled smack into the mound. Satisfied onlookers crowded around to console the driver, who stood in the sand and held his smashed nose...