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...touchdown. Then Rentner got his huge hands on a Minnesota punt and made Northwestern's last long touchdown run, making the score 32 to 14, making spectators feel sure that in its remaining games against Iowa and Indiana, Northwestern could score almost at will or at the whim of its capricious, brilliant backs. A half-million people watched the dozen biggest games of the week. Largest crowd of the year-100,000-saw Southern California's Mohler, Shaver, Pinckert and Musick, the best backfield on the Pacific Coast, smother Stanford at Los Angeles, 19 to o. With...
...fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera, in California, Egypt and Algeria, bemoaning the seven lean years since hats were last plumed, hoped the feathers in Paris would prove more than a whim...
Enter the Press. Battling to oust Leader Baldwin are the two mightiest newslords in the empire. For sheer bawling blatancy, for staggering reversals of editorial policy overnight at the publishers' whim, for colossal nerve in pouring millions of pounds into the boldest circulation-grabbing schemes and for boundless ambition to rule the British Empire from the press rooms of Fleet Street, the newspaper chains of Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere are unique...
...observer watches a vast throng pushing through an amusement district. By the law of averages he knows that a certain proportion will attend one theatre, other proportions other theatres. But he cannot tell which person will enter any particular theatre. Many of the people themselves could not enlighten him. Whim or the pressure of the crowd might change their direction...
...impossible to synthesize fame; it is not a tangible thing, it can not be broken down into component parts and analyzed; it is a mere whim of mankind. Virgil laboring under the burden of a dead language and writing of things long since forgotten has generally been dismissed from modern thought, yet he left behind him one of the world's greatest epics, he wrote learnedly on bee keeping or politics, and he was a master of poetic technique. The corpse of his greatness has been briefly revived because two thousand years ago yesterday he was born...