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Last week he made bankers' flesh creep by announcing in a Manchester address...
...Scarcely out of diapers, he stood on a table declaiming verse, inspired by a glass of liquor. Later trips to the bottle heightened his fancy in more weird and horrible manner. They won him an all-time record for the number of square yards of flesh he has made creep...
Having provided his team with what seemed a safe margin, Gnome Booth retired to the sidelines, watched Dartmouth creep up. In the last half he returned to the lineup but by this time McCall and Morton were making a turncoat of the jinx that has bothered Dartmouth in previous Yale Bowl games. Morton had made a 94-yd. runback of a Yale kickoff. McCall caught a pass intended for Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale...
Beacon Hill felt a thrill of horror creep up its asphalt as it became conscious of the most recent number of the New Yorker. Even the Back Bay may have quaked a little to discover its secretary of the navy quoted as writing to the president of Harvard College; "Dear Lawrence--Long a student of heraldry, I have satisfied myself that the only families north of the Mason and Dixon line entitled to bear arms are the Winthrops and Saltonstalls." This was apropos of the question of putting a coat of arms on the gable end of the new unit...
...allow Government to creep into our economic life only by the back door. We are afraid of regulation, primarily because our governments have been corrupt and ugly. Perhaps we keep the State ugly and dishonest as an excuse for turning it away more readily from the portals of business...