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...power of the evangelists over the whole Southern mind was so great that "skepticism . . . was anathema, and lack of frenetic zeal was . . . heresy." In such a mind pure hedonism and iron puritanism could lie down together without fighting over the blankets -and without, as Cash repeatedly points out, a trace of conscious hypocrisy. "There was much of Tartarin in this Southerner, but nothing of Tartufe...
Every good figure skater can do a Jackson Haines spin, the showy sit-spin that has helped make ice shows a popular U. S. entertainment. But few U. S. skaters know much about Jackson Haines, the father of figure skating. Jackson Haines was not the first skater to trace a pattern on ice. As far back as 1642, there was a skating club in Edinburgh, whose membership was confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship...
Permit me further to say that Professor Merriman, having a slight trace of English blood in him I believe, could not possibly be biased, and as for illustrious but unpredictable Sir, Elliott, the Yale University Graduate School of Traffic Conditions would no doubt be able to report more accurately the actual predicament of the man who crosses Harvard Square...
Germany has sent $300,000 of U. S. currency (probably seized in invaded countries) to New York banks in the last two months-its first sizable shipments in years. Hard to trace, currency is about the only liquid asset of invaded nations which could be shipped to the U. S. without risk of being frozen under Treasury regulations...
This rebuttal for Society is itself not without a trace of snobbery. The strongest curse the authors place on the magazine they abhor is that it should be read only by the cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders...