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...individual students responsible for participation in any public disturbance." As a matter of fact, it is rank idealism to assume that the antagonism can be wiped out altogether. As long as beautiful Georgian architecture casts its stately shadow on the slums of De Wolfe Street; as long as tweed coats and white-wall tires give life and breath to the spirit of "Gold Coast"; as long as University property is untaxed, the problem will exist. But it need not manifest itself in the form of group attack on unsuspecting students under the cover of dimmed street lights. It need...
Blaine, Harrison Tweed...
Franklin Roosevelt was in fine fettle. It was St. Patrick's Day: he wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork...
Oblique Chat. The women of London could not so easily forget. Housewives fretted about paying tenpence for limp lettuce and a shilling for fist-sized cauliflower. They muddied their boots and sprained their elderly tweed skirts poking around in wartime garden plots while they dreamed of home-grown peas and tomatoes, talked about with such annoyingly leisured learnedness in Mr. Middleton's column in the Daily Express. Still, it was pleasant to read about-more pleasant than to chat obliquely about the strange restlessness that spring seemed to have released throughout the nation...
Morris Hirshfield, a retired Brooklyn cloak & suit manufacturer, whose skies and mountains look as though they were made of herringbone or tweed, and whose quizzical lions have feminine-looking fur collars. After seeing Rousseau's painting of The Dream he was inspired to try a nude...