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...platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when he gets down out of his Rolls auto-moe-bile," boomed Bob Rey nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel? He eats caw-vee-yah! Do you folks...
...Cleopatra the Shamefaced. Don't ask us for the reference. There is nothing of the mummy in us; we went for the meat, and left those dry-as-dust details alone. Anyway, one of Augustus' soldiers, not quite so austere as his master, whispered to his fellows, "Caesar cam videt; rape cam, Caesar...
...more than three hundred years ago that Robin Herrick, the jocund lyricist of pastoral England, passed, if we may judge from his Hesperides, a riotous four years in St. John's and Trinity Hall, two colleges backing on the placid Cam. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he later became a parson in Devonshire, but the fine skill of his rejected trade seems to have followed him into the art of juggling with words...
...light in the pillar before them. The scene was not a highway but the psychological laboratory of Massachusetts State College at Amherst, or the 1935 Boston automobile show, or the 1934 Eastern States Exposition at Springfield, Mass. When the person being tested put his foot on the accelerator, the cam of a motor selector switch was set revolving, turning the green light to amber in two seconds. Thereafter, at an unpredictable interval, the amber light turned red. As soon as he saw the red light the subject removed his foot from the accelerator, applied the brake. The time interval...
Quinn said last night that he intends to place more emphasis on the radio side of debating and hopes to arrange a trans-oceanic debate next year between the combined forces of Yale and Harvard and an amalgamated Oxford-Cam? bridge team. Negotiations have also been undertaken to stage a round table discussion in which Harvard, a European university, and a Japanese university will take part...