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...head was not bared in accordance with the tenets of convention but boldly, jauntily attired with a felt hat. The professor's composure was, to put it mildly, upset and without a word of warning he swept down upon the hapless figures and with one expert swipe of his cane divested th head of its burden. It was only then that he discovered the identity of the offender. He was a very important visiting professor. Showing no signs of upset the guardian of maners stamped off leaving the visiting scholar somewhat confused as to the way things are done...
...great responsibility but a cinch of a job," remarked Ambassador Saito to ship news reporters on the Berengaria. Unlimbering U. S. idioms he learned in 14 years service as consul general in New York and as attache and charge d'affaires in Washington, he asked if he might "swipe" one of the newshawks' cigarets. "My chief purpose in coming he " he announced, "is to drink whiskey with good Americans." So saying, he led the way to the ship's bar. As to the "crisis ahead," Ambassador Saito blandly informed his interviewers : "What has happened can easily...
...cause of peace has taken a great many hard rights to the chin recently, but the cruelest swipe of all was to have Arthur Henderson, president of the world Disarmament Conference, lose faith in the good will of the nations assembled. For years Uncle Arthur has maintained that universal reduction of arms was within a reasonable stretch of the hand and would undoubtedly be reached by Monday, at the latest on Tuesday. And after each successive defent of his proposals and everybody else's proposals, he would bob up again with encouraging plans for new round-table meetings, finding...
...examinations managed to get through the Widener customs down by the turnstiles. This appears to be just another symptom of overemphasis of examinations. Outside of the repulsive enthusiasm that must be necessary in order to read one of the beastly things through, actually to get close enough to swipe one seems especially bad taste. Of course: "de gustibus...
...featured the game. The work of the rival goal guards suffered from a lack of practice, and more goals were tallied from long shots and mad scrambles than is usual in a college game. With five minutes of the second period gone. Everett, Dartmouth right wing, took a mad swipe at the puck, sent it three-fourths the length of the Arena, and sunk it for a score...