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...Weetamoe looked like a long-necked bird. Her line of keel, almost straight from the heel of the sternpost to the fore-end of the water line, gives her a decided gain in wetted surface over all the others, makes her fast in light airs, but hard to steer before the wind...
...certainly say for "Between the Lines" that it is a truly beautiful expression of faith, and many college men will long remember the author's consul, "You have to set your own course, steer your ship by what stars you know, and see to it that your lights are burning bright; and if you notice, with no joy, that your friends are no slightly divergent courses, which will take them out of sight before nightfall, wish them Godspeed." By all means, this is a book...
...such ungentlemanly fellows as you. You are not independent. You are biased. You write what the public wants. I consider the Press reaction to my meeting with Hugh Walpole, the English novelist, when he arrived in this country, to have been ungentlemanly in the extreme. . . . Really nice people instinctively steer clear of you." Of "Texas Jim" Baker, inmate, self-confessed mur derer of nine, commented Fisticuffer Tunney: "A strange person, yet apparently charming and gracious. ... I think the place is most delightfully cared for, especially the way those cots are made up. They're so neat...
...Chicago 80 employes of Swift & Co. (meats) worked overtime last week. Some were butchers, some were clerks, some were executives, but their extra work had nothing to do with steer-sticking, pig statistics or meat-selling. It involved practicing and singing for the annual concert of the Swift Male Chorus...
...barely daylight when the President's train reached Washington. But he stepped off immediately and hastened to the White House, primed to steer the London parley, if possible, into new and more hopeful channels...