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...each fruit-farmer of Merced County. Calif, who asked for it last week, Dooley P. Wheeler, agricultural commissioner, presented a quart jar. The farmers went to their farms, opened the jars and cried, in effect...
...more friends outside the academic grove than in Cambridge, and it is debatable whether the under-graduates appreciate good reading. Nobody can read the Bible like him. Nobody knows what Kipling's verse is until "Copey" reads it. In the days when folks used to roar at Mr. Dooley, "Copey"--then, demme, not a professor, but a mere instructor--used to be wonderful with the brogue...
...Dooley" commented on Booker T. Washington's dining at the White House: "I don't mind sayin' that I'd rather ate with a coon thin have wan wait on me. I'd sooner he'd handle his own food thin mine. F'r me, if anny thumb must be in th' gravy, lave it be white if ye please...
...strong enough to include himself. When he was a young man still trying to pierce the carapace of Boston, he overheard someone saying of him, " 'He's a diamond in the rough,' a fact which I myself dimly appreciated." Several times Garland met famed Humorist Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley), but "he was very serious in his talks with me, perhaps because he felt something depressing in me. We discussed weighty things most weightily...
Personages with influence caught Bremen-fever, caught the Bremen too. Personages: U. S. Senator Royal Samuel Copeland; Peter Finley "Mr. Dooley" Dunne; Mr. & Mrs. Gustave A. Heckscher; Soprano Frieda Hempel; Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post ("merely...