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...married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn't the remotest idea of going through the mess of a divorce. . . . Nine times out of ten a man clings to his wife with both hands and wouldn't part with her for the world, because she is his perpetual alibi...
...persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet-U. S. situation, bleated in Moscow: "The question of Communist propaganda is a stale subject about which there should be no further discussion...
...expelled students. The trouble, as 1 see it, lies in the education system of most colleges which practically compels students to cheat. Too much emphasis is placed on exams and not on daily work. I am a graduate of Penn State '28, which is noted for its Penn Stale Honor Code. Still there is cheating. Yet there is no cheating in classes conducted by profs who play fair with the students. I know men who would not cheat or aid a cheater in one prof's class yet who would cheat plenty in another class...
...propaganda department the Democratic staff wholly outranks its opponents. Until two elections ago political publicity agents were usually picked from a stale selection of hacks for whom the Press had no jobs. In 1929 Jouett Shouse hired Charles Michelson, Washington correspondent of the late New York World. Michelson raised his job to a new importance. He wrote good speeches for party bigwigs, spread masterful anti-Republican innuendoes, taught the country to hate Herbert Hoover...
...trials during the examinations. The necessity of concentrating on the varsity squad in preparation for these contests has often prevented the coach from devoting the requisite attention to Freshmen and newcomers. Indeed, the result of the intensive early training has often been to make many of the men go stale early in the season, thereby jeopardizing Harvard's chances in the most important intercollegiate games...