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...depression, now appears only to have been scotched, but not despatched at the 1929 crossroads. The guide posts to reform are being ignored on every side, and the demand becomes more insistent for a return to the era of unrestricted profits. It is indeed discouraging when crusaders such as Welter Lippmann, Johnson and others become apologists...
...cuter and less exciting." When Beatty ran away from Chillicothe at 15 to join the circus he found oldtime one- species, one-sex animal acts already too tame to make the public pulsate. People wanted fights. Sure way to start fights was to make the "big cage" a welter of hatred and jealousy by mixing species and sexes. Beatty kept on mixing and adding until by 1930 famed circus Press Agent Dexter Fellows could advertise "Forty (40) Magnificent, Monstrous, Menacing Man-Eaters Miraculously Mingled...
...this welter emerged, as French tradition asserted itself, two seconds for each contestant who pulled them apart, sent for stenographic reports of what Accuser Henriot had said, and began to debate on a high chivalric plane whether there should be a duel. "It would be the first political duel since Clemenceau!" exclaimed bloodthirsty oldsters, delighted. "Just like old times! Remember how Clemenceau provoked Decassagnac to challenge him by walking up to Decassagnac in a cafe and stirring his coffee with his cane? Those were the times...
...business man who makes his plans in the face of such a welter of uncertainties has an iron nerve, indeed. And the 440-yard dash while sprints will be entrusted to Edwin E. Calvin '35. Climaxing his season by winning three first places against Yale, Robert S. Playfair '36, will be entered in the mile and 1000-yard run. Thomas F. Locke '35, Anthony A. Bliss '36, and John White '34 ar also expected to show up well
...department, as well as an authority on modern European history and 19th century diplomacy. His lectures are artfully planned and carefully written down word by word. The opening sentence of each lecture usually connects the subject of the day with the roots of the problem presented in the welter of detail in previous lectures. As the chapel bell resounds at one o'clock, Professor Langer most certainly is droning out a dynamic conclusion, stating the essence of the lecture and raising the question for the next discussion. Revolutions and diplomacy are for the first time realities, instead of phantom monsters...