smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.