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Visiting Howard Coffin at Sea Island Beach, Ga. Campaigner McAdoo McAdoodled: "The first real test of strength has been settled. . . . This not only makes Garner a formidable contestant for the presidential nomination but it is a serious and perhaps irreparable blow to the Roosevelt candidacy...
...facts he had none. He quoted Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate, Byron, Bryan and a man named Bugg. He told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate...
...Tristram Coffin and the Honorable Charles Warren '89 will be poet and orator, respectively, at the annual spring exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, it was announced yesterday by W. G. Howard '07, professor of German, and secretary of the Harvard chapter of the Society...
Shrilling the "Star Spangled Banner," Shanghai Boy Scouts and Shanghai Girl Guides escorted Mrs. Short to the biggest funeral Shanghai has ever given a white man. His body lay embalmed in a steel coffin of immense weight. As it passed through packed Shanghai streets, the crowd panicked. Overhead zoomed Chinese planes (prudently withheld from action two months ago against the Japanese). Chinese pilots showed their skill in daring turns and sideslips. At Hungjao Airdrome, from which Robert Short went up to certain Death last February, his steel coffin was lowered into a hole in the ground. During the funeral...
...once bet that Picket could down a bull as quickly as a toreador. Mexicans whooped with derision, brought a great, black bull down from the mountains, posted $5,000 and the gate receipts. So sure were the Mexicans that Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin and burial squad. Entering the arena on a cayuse, Picket jumped on the back of the charging bull, sank his teeth in the bull's nose,, within seven minutes was sitting on its head. To avert a brawl between side-betting Mexican sports and Col. Miller's show...