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...call an octopus in trout's clothes). . . . Seems to us Ann Marster's experiment in playing the horses hasn't been too great a success. We've been noticing quite a few reports lately starting, 'Only picked one winner yesterday' Back to getting the dirt on Harvard's wild cock-tail parties, Ann!. . . . Incidently the freshmen seem to have found a way of getting the wheels turning at their smoker last night: they merely stood up and threw cheese, crackers and doughnuts at each other until Jimmy Foxx appeared, minus a bat or even a catcher's mask. The great...
Thence to Cock Horse to cat, and I was stung exceedingly, and thence to town and to Shubert to see Water Hampden as Cyrano de Bergerac. By good fortune I did get a box seat at balcony fee--so great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...
...spite of all temptations to take his tongue out of his cheek and go up higher, Author Stong remains at the top of his heap, lustily cock-a-doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating...
Various methods which have been tried were not successful. Tipsy driver, "cock-eyed" co-eds and "dead soldiers" outside dorm windows grow more frequent every...
...Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last...