Couldn't they do anything but go to extremes, for gosh sake?
Here he had made a record night,--he had distinctly told that clerk the time he had made it in,--and Cliff Lowell knew, too.

Yet the paper was absolutely dumb.

They ignored everything he did that was worth notice, and yawped his private affairs all over their front pages.

That man Lowell was taking too much on himself.

Johnny hadn't agreed to take the job yet; he very much doubted whether he would take it at all.