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Looking ahead a few days, to those who were formerly "gainfully employed" among us, there is an income tax payment coming up on June 15th... the Midshipman Athletic program planned for us will shortly be roaring along... we're betting currently that (1) Jim Riley (as usual) will cuss up and down C entry next Monday when his wife (as usual) does not write to him over the weekend, and (2) we're equally certain that you will be able to find E. G. Davis any night at 2000 this week at the center table at the student club telling...
Even its pressmen and linotypers are un-begrimed. In its cathedral-quiet newsroom, newsmen (85% of them Christian Scientists) always wear their coats, never cuss or smoke...
Corporal Ben Effros brought the house down. He phoned Mrs. Michael Sharlitt, director of Cleveland's Belle Faire Orphanage. Talking a bluestreak, he reminded "Mother" Sharlitt how she used to wash his mouth out for using cuss words, told her he had a sergeant "who would run her clean out of soap...
...strictly Hoosier to think of embodying so hefty a theme in a book which in patches is light to the point of ribaldry. It is cheeky to call such a book a "white paper." But these days Washington is a breezy hub of the world, where cuss words, flippancy and wisecracks distinguish the august and the great. The Secretary of State lisps, and therefore says "Jesus Kwyst!," report Davis & Lindley, whose admiration for Cordell Hull's profanity and cracker-box yarns about mules, shirttails and barnyard fowl is right in the Washington groove...
...Ohio, he taught country school and then, with $68 saved from his $35-a-month salary, he went to Ohio Wesleyan, where he was a star ballplayer, graduated in 1906, still serves on its board of trustees. Branch Rickey is a working Methodist: he doesn't drink or cuss. His greatest oath is "Judas Priest." Not only has he an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional skills and foibles of the 500-odd ballplayers he controls, but he keeps an extensive tab on their private morals...