Word: deweyitis
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...Broad Street, the bronze statue of a Union soldier (First Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard) backed against the red-brick headquarters of the Union League of Philadelphia. Old, dignified Republicans, walking up the curving steps to lunch on stewed snapper or crabmeat Dewey while discussing politics and finance, sometimes gave the bronze hero a glance. Theirs was the party which saved the Union 81 years...
...shading all done by five of the hour. He heard the instructor say something about ends. End of what? Vag wondered. End of the class? He wrote "Flynn" and then, more carefully, "Coulson." Under the "H"--probably a major "H" Vag thought-- he put down "Davis, Dewey, Drvarie." He was thinking about the other guard when the clatter of closing books came in on him. He wrote "Rodis" quickly and shut his notebook...
...scrimmaging team yesterday was as follows: le, Hauptfuhrer; lt. Dewey; lg, Rodis; c, Glynn; rg, Feinberg; rt, Davis; re, Florentino; qb, Miklos, rbb, Gannon lhb, Petrillo; fb, Moravec...
Thomas E. Dewey ran into an embarrassing shortage problem last week. A year ago, the sympathetic Tacoma (Wash.) Athletic Commission found the Governor a hard-to-get toilet seat for the Executive Mansion, sent it to him posthaste. But now the commissioners, building new quarters, were confronted with an identical shortage. Red-faced but resolute, they sent for their toilet seat...
Coulson, le; Dewey and Houston, lt; Rodis, lg; Glynn, c; Drvaric, rg; Davis, rt; Florentine, re; Goethals, qb; Petrillo, lhb; Gannon, rhb; Moravec...