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...move adjournment at a certain hour, but had not appeared on the floor, Mr. Reed pounded with his gavel and announced: "The gentleman from Ohio moves that the House do now adjourn"; and then, leaning over the rostrum, called in a stage whisper to the clerk: "Where in thunder is the gentleman from Ohio?" When no answer came, he put the motion and declared it carried. Those days are past forever. When Joseph G. Cannon was Speaker, the revolt of 1910 stripped him of his autocratic power; and Champ Clark, who succeeded him, did not care to offend anyone (because...
...Yale game. It is true that Crimson spectators do not generate much vocal enthusiasm over minor games; but why should they? Harvard cheering has in the past truly represented the opinions and temperament of its undergraduates. If the intention of the Council's trained leaders is to cause much thunder at all times, its aim and end is hypocrisy...
...students know of the dissension in the time of Jefferson, exclaimed Professor Hart in his concluding speech. "how in thunder can you expect them to understand the polities of today' I shall stand on the proposition that our aucestors in the Revolution did a mightly good job even if they were act all good men and allowing for their mistakes as we make mistakes following the splendid story of their endeavor and is result of conquering a continent and assimilating millions of those who have come...
...movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce on their melodious halmas, their tinkling clavichords, the surge and thunder of the Odyssey is an error in criticism. They do not belong to the period the less by being in reaction against its stridencies. Among the more capable halma players is William, Griffith. His note is small, facile; it has the grace of not taking its grace too seriously...
...Aventine* Opposition-group of about 150 Deputies of the Opposition which has boycotted the Chamber of Deputies since the Matteotti murder (TIME, June 23 et seq.)-seized a chance during this quietus to steal some of Benito's thunder...