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Slightly more pleasant than Mr. Tasker, though not really so different psychologically, was his vicar, the Rev. Hector Turnbull. Days at the vicarage, all identical, were punctuated by the Rev. Hector's heavy and regular meals, heavy and regular tread, heavy and regular sermons, tooth troubles and grumblings over money. Occasionally, the Rev. Hector noticed the second maid's ankle. Occasionally, he went away to a dentist. That ankles and teeth were connected in the life of a churchman with so proud a bearing as the Rev. Hector's, none would have guessed; and when the Rev. Hector fell heavily...
Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...
...much the present Committee has at least tried to do with occasional outstanding failures. In follow-up work however, where absolutely nothing effective is now done, the Executive Board of the proposed Bureau will tread new ground. Each member of the Executive Board will visit the men on his list at monthly intervals to make suggestions for new programs, assist in difficult situations and reassign men obviously misplaced. The vital importance of this individual work cannot be too heavily stressed. It will be supplemented in occasional general meetings of volunteers to hear visiting speakers and to engage in organized round...
...Borah is "close" to the White House. Mr. Coolidge wanted nothing more than to have him on the Republican ticket for the office of Vice President. The party organization does not tread on his toes for irregularity. Rather, he is looked...
...Senate, he has a pronounced advantage in the public eye, for the public is made up largely of business men whose natural sympathy is with one who drives ahead to get things done, rather than with the deliberate and political type of mind loathe to abandon its measured tread and political shifts...