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Remember-the Iris, beautiful as it is, may very easily become a nasty weed, if thick, and utterly spoil a beautiful lawn. Take heed-Do not allow yourselves to become so everlastingly tiresome. It may be disastrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...plentiful as dust under the bed. First, Julia, eldest Greene daughter, was shot in the heart in her bedroom with the lights turned on. Then, Ada, youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother, by the will of their father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drawling Detective | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...forbid. I think that this is only another demonstration of the fact that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Particular | 3/29/1928 | See Source »

...spoil a party of which you disapprove is to leave it, making a disturbance as you go. That attracts people's attention. If you were right, the party may be toned down or turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Exit Costigan | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those who are enjoying the advantages of the Reading. Period should spoil their books, lest, in fact, the Widener steps should become impracticably icy, that the Vagabond is leaving and for other reasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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