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...late yet; the Museum can still buy up some harpoons from the Eskimos and some one-pounders from the Japanese, and really go after this thing with zest. Let the man-eating pirates be scourged from the high seas before they can commit any more depredations on the pedestrian commerce of our waterways. The Museum, as a unit representing Harvard, should not go fishing for peaceful fish while there are still so many killers at large...
...laboring this, their major point, Labor orators failed to show last week the zest and punch of that fine old vituperator, David Lloyd George. Once more, the fiery Welshman wagged his forefinger in the faces of members of the Cabinet, calling them "Yellows!" "The London Committee on Spanish Non-Intervention" (see p. 21), shouted Orator Lloyd George, shaking his hoary, tousled head, "is the basest fraud ever perpetrated by great nations on a weak people...
Even those who did not know the legend of Amphitryon*-whose wife Alcmena was seduced by Jupiter-expected this because they knew Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Spirited Aphrodisiantics, urbanely conducted infidelities are the hallmark of Lunt-Fontanne plays, which take on added zest from the well-known fact that Actors Lunt and Fontanne have been contentedly married for the last 15 years...
...regarded as successful unless it produces graduates willing and able to support it for the benefit of future generations coming on. And it is significant that for over three hundred years Harvard has been perpetuated and improved by men to whom she gave their early training and their zest for intellectual endeavor...
...College for helping him to a knowledge of a field of history, say, or a science, or a pre-legal course or a specific bit of training leading on to a job, the greatest service which the College can give him is the ability to think and "a zest for intellectual endeavor...