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...What Has Happened to Boston?", with the memory not yet obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in the pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel being in the fact that both cities lost their majesties, the one through luxury, the other through misplaced Puritanism...
...expected, trouble developed, and the young teacher lived up to expectations by soundly thrashing one of his pupils. Bub the pupil, resenting thus having been beaten at his own game, started suit against the teach ar. The teacher did not have any money to hire a lawyer. So he went into court and defended himself. He won again...
...German who was asked if lager beer was intoxicating, replied: "Well, I drinks from seventy to eighty glasses a day, and I feels all straight in my upper story for any kind of business; but I can't tell vat it would do mit men vat makes a swill-bub of himself." [Tech...
...Hullo, Bub?" he said interrogatively...
...aboard! - Let go his head, bub! - Romeo, off and away...