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...cawn-fed in Alabamy', and the Mason-Dixon line having always possessed for me the proportions of a veritable wall of China, I was prepared to be intensely critical, vibrantly sensitive, and susceptible to every influence brought to bear on me at Harvard. How faithfully I have fulfilled this vow remains to be seen...
...George Bernard Shaw was one of the first men I met in London. I forget how I encountered him... He used to drop in and talk of his brilliant future and vow he would achieve it .... He had just written Cashel Byron's Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that...
...District of Columbia judge, last week, released the five dominant meat-packing concerns from their forced vow to divest themselves of and "forever disassociate" themselves from subsidiary lines of business. Had they not taken this vow in 1920, the then Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, would probably have sued them for breach of the trust laws. Trust-busting having become so unfashionable (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS), it seemed unlikely that Attorney General Sargent would execute his predecessor's threat...
More potent than the vow he pled...
Skeptics, marveling that they had been (permitted to read of this happening, took a vow never to order a sandwich in the Automat, reformed their former low opinion of the honesty of the U. S. press. "There is a big advertiser † gone," they said, wagging their heads...