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...while the adventure into chivalry of this sort appeals to the envious imagination of the home front, it is probably with a sigh of relief that the returning veterans contemplate the friendly opportunity of shaking the warm, limp hand of a president...
...long a rich and elderly English couple should keep their motor cars and what sort to buy when replacement becomes necessary are two questions which Their Britannic Majesties answered last week by setting an example. They have used their three personal cars for five years. They took delivery of three more, last week, from the impeccable firm of Hooper, carriage and motor-body builders to Royalty...
...entered into this agreement with the Almighty. Does the Deity who frowns upon the playing of Sunday tennis except between 2 and 6 o'clock recognize the validity of daylight saving time? In the light of Einsteinian ideas of space-time, one hesitates to get into discussions on this sort of thing, and perhaps it would be wise to leave the matter with the mere positing of the problem. But the fact remains that time is not the same in one place as in another and that by the immutable statute of Massachusetts it is different at different times...
...Think a moment, after all isn't that just what it needs--more pep! Not much doing in Mem Hall these days, and it has a tendency to get behind the times and collect dust. It needs to hear a little informal singing, not just symphony concerts, but the sort of thing that will want to make those old portraits speak up and call each other by their first names...
...Vagabond, speaking personally, is not himself particularly interested in Divisional Examinations--or any other sort for that matter. It has always been his endeavor to make of himself, so far as possible, a cultured individual, rather than a more or less perfect example of the plumber's art, which should, when the right tap is turned and the right chain pulled react in the customary and appropriate fashion. Of course, that will not provide him with a sheepskin, and he shall probably have to content himself for some time with goat hide...