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...young man, the "Princetonian" advises, and rightly so, that a veneer is but a veneer, and that a zest, an enthusiasm, that indefinable "joi de vivre", is, after all, the requisite for achievement. When that is gone, Life in the Spirit goes. When that is gone, then, O Princeton, weep for Adonaisl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS YOUNGER DEGENERATION | 3/27/1931 | See Source »

...investors before bankruptcy, and never recovered, the staggering figure will more than puzzle you when you compare it with the liabilities of about $4,000,000. Amazing, but true. If you desire certified copies of auditors' reports, I have them. You may peruse them and weep. Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Author. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson made many a reader weep with his bestseller, If Winter Comes. Four years ago he married Una Rosamond Bristow-Gapper, who wrote to him admiringly on a postcard. Simon is their only child. Other books: This Freedom, One Increasing Purpose, The Uncertain Trumpet, The Clean Heart, The Happy Warrior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter's Child | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Fred Doboriewitz, 24, dry cleaner, left his open ammonia cleaning tank to telephone his sweetheart for forgiveness of a quarrel. She was unrelentant. He shuffled broken-hearted back to his ammonia tank to weep against its edge. The fumes asphyxiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Commented Dr. Alexander Copeland Millar, editor of the Arkansas Methodist and, like Bishop Cannon a Hoover Democrat : "We cannot go back on the greatest Prohibition leader in the world, for if we did, the devils in Hell would shout with lee and the angels in Heaven would weep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gambler Forgiven | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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