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...just a question of time before the jesters lost heart, but they had one more ace in the hole. With a shrieking Indian warery they set out for the Varsity field looking for men to plug their gaps. They were unable to corral the services of E. Ingalls, U. Lupien, and others on which their hearts were set, but they did succeed in getting pointers on the national pastime by smiling Fred Mitchell himself. It made no difference, though, and the losers trudged home wiser men, as the poet says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon's Carefare Cuffed as Crimson Spanks Ball to Win Annual Joust 23-2 | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

...going to get our girls from Wellesley and Radcliffe. We are even running an advertisement in the Radcliffe News. We are also going to go to Wellesley to corral as many women as we can. Don't misunderstand us; we are not in the slave business," he warned. "We are just going to make lonesome harts happier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN GET DATE BUREAU TO SUPPLY JUBILEE FEMALES | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...Autry, picked three years ago from the radio and schooled in lyric foofaraw to start the singing cowboy school of Westerns, is currently holding out for more than the $5,000 a picture he has been getting from Republic Pictures. In an effort to frighten him back into the corral for the twelve pictures planned for him, Republic picked Rogers from a minor role in Autry's last film, The Old Barn Dance, starred him in the current cinema, which was originally called Washington Cowboy. A 25-year-old, Wyoming-born Indian-Irish-American, Roy Rogers smiles like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Prime requisite of a fireman is the ability to think fast in an emergency. Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Law Observance | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

While such an outlay might be considered sufficient today, these famished Englishmen demanded something a little extra with each meal. Such things as white peacocks served with their feathers still remaining "to make them look alive" or rabbits adorned with corral beads upon their feet and silver bells hung from their necks were really considered "comme il faut" by the Emily Posts of that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16th Century Englishmen Like College Drunks Today ... Overindulged and Suffered for It Too | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

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