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...much amusement in the hotel situation at Cambridge as in the story of the fat lady in the pullman car; but on the other hand, when they were forced to the inconvenience of leaving town in order merely to spend a few hours of the night, they usually gave vent to their spleen in no uncertain terms...
...expressing among others one answer several years ago, "R. U. R."--that while science and the machine could not totally obliterate humanity, yet only on the barest thread of some intangible essence hung the existence of civilization, a thread totally outside of the scope of science. Others have given vent to the fantastic and emotional cry "Back to Nature"--and schools of education have in a few instances carried this into practice...
...those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve. This is the first letter she has ever written me in more than 20 years. I must give vent to my emotions. I am not writing for notoreity - not for debates - but for action. Put someone wise. Mr. Baker, Nat. Relief Director, went there to supervise. The people here give money and nine chances out of ten it is used to pay wages - directly or indirectly to clerks that...
...most uncalled for and venomous attack on the members of various London clubs which I note are carefully not mentioned by name. That the editor of a paper to which I have for some time subscribed should lower his magazine by allowing some member of his staff to vent his jealousy and malice on men, who, being unnamed, cannot defend themselves ... is inconceivable. If the writer of this paragraph is not a hypocrite, who is? Such sickening cant is unworthy of the attention of any sane and intelligent reader-an uncalled for affront to men of a friendly nation, which...
...district is full of Jewish, Italian and Irish constituents. All of these have plenty of children and plenty were at Mr. Farley's party last week. As demure and vagrant as fluffy rabbits, the little girls in their white dresses went creeping about the lawns giving vent to small cries. The stags at the party chased them from time to time: there was a regrettable fracas when one of the latter, finding himself next a small female with a loud voice, attempted to stuff his handkerchief down her throat and cut off her hair, perhaps her head, with...