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...Republic was "encamped at Grand Rapids, Mich. And last week 5,000 blue-coated veterans marched as they have done in former years; with backs bent and eyes dim; with the aid of canes and crutches, but still with the indomitable spirit that even Lee could not daunt...
...current attraction, The Goose Hangs High. And Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., to keep faith with the Convention, stated that the opening-night seats for the new Follies will go no higher than $5.50. He has appointed a majordomo to scrutinize each applicant with the eye of suspicion and daunt the "gyps...
...Then came the war, and, like Merriwell, Matty enlisted and went to France. Flu and gas brought on tuberculosis. Big Six was pronounced dying. Thirteen months in bed did not daunt his spirit. Neither did he weaken in the rest of his fight. Like Frank Merriwell in a similar position...
Cambridge-Oxford. The race between these colleges will take place on April 13. The Oxford crew went into strict training on January 24, and the crew, as at present made up, is as follows: Bow, H. D. Daunt, B. N. C.; 2, S. F. Bayley, Christ; 3, W. H. Greenfell, Balliol; 4, G. F. Burgess, Keble; 5, J. W. Booth, Pembroke; 6, R. H. Pelham, Magdalen; 7, H. B. Southwell, Pembroke; Stroke, W. A. Ellison, University...
...Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical...