Word: treading
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...will continue to get times wrong, to get places mixed, to misspell the names of professors. Technicalities are not for the majestic corridors of his soul. Harvard was made for the Vagabond to do as he liked with, not the Vagabond for Harvard. If you gentlemen do not tread lightly likely as not he will pack up, and blaze a trail across the mountains to Beloit...
Cartoonists often represent Labor as a hulking, slightly stupid man with great biceps and an ominous sledgehammer in his hand. Viewing the cartoon, one gets the idea that it would be incautious to tread on the man's big toes, extremely imprudent to slap him in the face. He might be sluggish and slow to anger, but if aroused his wrath could be violent. Fortnight ago U. S. Labor, the large part of it that works in steel, copper and textile mills, decidedly had its toes stepped on. After sustaining wage levels through two depressed years while dividends fell...
...irascible nature. His 500-acre estate ("Nemours") near Wilmington is guarded by a high, barbaric wall. Firmly cemented in its top are great jagged pieces of glass. The gates are made of iron grillwork backed with steel sheeting. No unwelcome eye may look at "Nemours," no unwelcome feet tread its lawns...
With the House Plan, Harvard will perpetuate itself, reckoning little of the future. But the fathers have eaten wild grapes and the children's teeth will be set on edge. Why hope to spare the impending day of athletics for all, and the lank limbs that follow in its tread? No, the hope of the world must be in the women. And even that is an much a case of vanity as of hope. It is really about as broad as it is long. One can only sit by, and muse on hippology...
...convey. It is the purest and most absolute music, altogether sufficient unto itself. It should be held sacred from meddling. . . . There should be limits to a practice by which dancers, who apparently are without feeling for the true essence of music, may rush in where angels would fear to tread and jauntily misrepresent masterpieces...