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...from minor sport athletes as well as from participants in major sports, recognition should be equal in all cases, leave it in doubt as to whether the athletic letter is to be regarded more appropriately as a reward of excellence or as a sort of bribe held out to tempt the hesitating into action. Obviously if it serves in the first capacity it is effective in the second also, but obviously the first is the fundamental one for unless the letter is recognized as a valuable reward it will have no value as an incentive...
Upon resuming private life to attend to his interests, Mr. Herrick continued so politically potent that he twice declined to become Secretary of the Treasury, when offered that post by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Finally President Taft found a plum to tempt "the man from Cleveland." Would he accept the U. S. Ambassadorship to France? Mr. Herrick would?but for a strange, sound reason?at that time, 1912, his hobby was industrial credits, and he deemed the methods of the Credit Fonder of France the most advanced and worthy of study...
Came the army to Swindon, footsore & weary. No luring damsels could entice the younger men away for a frolic; no Labor hosts could tempt the elders to a reception. Instead, the army lay on its back and practised the songs that it would sing passing through London. One, called the "Rebel Song," went...
...advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public with pawky promises...
...Miguel Cinchaga Tocornal stomach. Where is romance, where color? Does all womankind wear "Bar is creations" and display its ears? Is all mankind standardized into that deaf torture, the dinner jacket? Where will this end? Soon we may hear that Germans do not drink beer that Frenchmen do not tempt innocent American chorus-girl-hood, that manicuring is a profitable Chinese industry. Nothing is more shameful than to destroy the faith of the great American peepul in foreign nature...