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...Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain...
Saturday, President Conant delivered his address to the members of the class of 1937; his message was awaited with interest, not in any vain expectation of a revelation of the new President's plans, but more because this first utterance from the depths of the Quincy Street White House was regarded by the students as an indication of the President's general point of view in his dealings with them. This hope was fulfilled on several fronts: in the first place, the President's words showed a genuine and thoroughly tactful desire to establish a friendly and confident relationship between...
...word most descriptive of the island's whole situation. Havana simmered with several hundred master statesmen, scarcely two alike after eight years of pulverizing tyranny. Into the simmering pot, in front of the Presidential Palace, peered Cuba's hungry but critical citizens. They looked in vain for a master cook. Only one ingredient in the pot suited every taste and that was proud resistance to U. S. intervention. The Sergeants. There were the Army's non-commissioned officers, on a spree. They had seen last month how neatly their superior officers led by Col. Horacio Ferrer...
...night attacks the sirens promptly put out every light in Tokyo. The enemy buzzed over a perfectly darkened city, pricked only by purple or red-hooded automobile headlights and red flashlights at important traffic centres. Sato leaned out his dark window, listened in vain for the noise of airplane engines, felt that something big was going...
...factory's basement. Two days later Frank was arrested for the crime, tried and convicted largely on the testimony of a Negro employed as a sweeper in the factory. New York City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal his case in vain to the U. S. Supreme Court, charged Georgia with "railroading" him. This outside interest caused Georgians to lust for Frank's blood, guilty or innocent. Racial and sectional feeling was at fever heat...