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...Puritans Joe Peden and "Little Joe" Hindle carried the mail, with the latter's third period collin cornor kick having a lot to do with halting any Dudley march before it could organize. In the Winthrop line, Charley Moore and "Blubber" Peters bore the brunt...
...author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must marry Ichabod Crane, because in the van Tassel family the eldest daughter must wed a schoolmaster or be carried off by a ghost...
...owes me $10,000, at least, for acting as a guinea pig for her column for the past 15 years. First I got the brunt of her theories on how to raise children; next, I was the wild younger generation; then I was a youth caught in the clutches of a depression; then I was a young married man, and now that I'm a father I suppose the cycle will start all over again...
...four railway brotherhoods (trainmen, conductors, engineers, firemen) have got 70-car limit bills introduced into Congress. Spearhead of the drive is amiable but persistent George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, whose favorite thesis it is that railroads would have less trouble bearing the financial brunt of improved labor conditions if they had not piled up such huge funded debts while paying juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote. The Senate sent...
This year Sever has borne the brunt of investigation by students and faculty alike...