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"People in the West Side, west of Ninth Avenue, throw garbage from upstairs win-dows," began Mark O'Connell, blushing.
("Ike") Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss.
Boys are always playing polo on the Hitchcock field. Even during the juvenile depopulation that falls upon Long Island in August because mothers mysteriously believe this to be an unhealthy season, young candidates for next year's Meadow Lark Club are being watched by Mrs. Hitchcock and coached by...
Dishonest practices used to be common enough in college athletics. Hired townies buttressed baseball teams, rowdy-dows won football contests for $5 per. All-around athletes who could hardly read a newspaper were put through college at the expense of the Alumni Association and given high grades in English and...
With this statement from Abraham Lincoln I would join also a passage from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Edward Dows in 1803: