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...charges are an] insincere, unprincipled and dishonest campaign of deliberate slander ... by a little handful of ambitious men who seem quite willing to stab the State's greatest institution in the back if they think they might thereby advance their personal or political fortunes...
...runner on third, Martynik drove a hard grounder to Wood, who was unable to field the ball cleanly, and Goff scored, Martynik stretching his base hit for two bases. In the midst of this confusion Des Roches pulled the situation out of the fire by making a valiant stab at the hard grounder sent out by Potter, catching Martynik flat-footed as he tore into the base. Two flies and a strike out was Harvard's record in this inning...
Some mean person once called Michael Arlen's style not brilliant, but brilliantine. There is more justice in this stab when it is aimed at his earlier novels than at his latest, best book. Still brilliantined in spots, Men Dislike Women may surprise Arlenites by its compactness, comparative hardness, freedom from the brittle artificiality, the paste tears, the pasty sentiment that have made even Arlen enthusias's call Michael Arlen ephemeral...
...form of the deceased, cutting and bisecting thousands of notes and letters, occasionally setting one aside, pausing and jotting down a brief paragraph or two. After each of these strange interludes she would pick up a knife, sharpen it a bit on her old boot and then stab an imaginary figure at her side, resuming her work with a mumble: "Another last word." . . . G. C. MERRILL...
...Angeles may have its Aimee Semple McPherson, and it may have its Bob Shuler, and it may have a lot of other disagreeable personages and things, through which rank publicity gains its way into lip-licking scandal sheets, but why the stab about Gaylord Wilshire in your issue...