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Today, residents are engaged in the more sober business of trying to save their Wharf from progress. Not more than a month ago, Quincy Market Cold Storage & Warehouse Company, owner of the loft, notified tenants to depart by July 1. After that, the company plans to demolish the building and close access to the wharf for safety reasons...
...firings in various persons' brains. More than any other author among today's galaxy of national strategy commentators, Kahn has caused a fecundity of vented spleens from that group he vaguely classifies as "Utopians." Simultaneously, from that group of observers Kahn wishes he could with a clear conscience call "sober analysts," he has ignited more than a few brushfires...
...major factor favoring Davison in his reform was the sober maturity of the veterans who returned from World War I impatient with the Glee Club's rowdiness. Another was the University Chapel Choir, for as Organist, he had control over repertoire. When at Christmas 1913 he introduced some Radcliffe singers into the choir, President Lowell warned him sternly not to do it again, but when the beautifully varied tone of a mixed chorus reappeared the following year, Lowell remained silent and thereafter supported Davison unswervingly...
...rooms, the corridor, and $130 worth of beverages were used to accommodate the estimated 300 students, tutors, and interested though not necessarily sober observers in attendance--over half of whom were dressed in costumes representing a fat slice of historical mankind from Edward the Black Prince to a churl...
...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...