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...thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier and scarcely drier than the rowing men. It is not to be wondered at, then, that the weather forms the first staple of conversation at Oxford; that it is, in fact, the first of a number of interests which the Englishman and the foreigner find in common at Oxford. The part which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rhodes Scholar Writes Contemporary Oxford Articles | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

Following Secretary Hoover's answer to the Borah questionnaire, Lawyer Clarence Darrow said: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with him" (TIME, March 5). Last week, questions were submitted asking Nominee Hoover to confirm or deny the Darrow statement and also to record: 1) whether Mr. Hoover has taken a drink since Prohibition; 2) whether Mr. Hoover would take a drink now if assured the liquor was legally possessed. Nominee Hoover's secretary, chubby George Akerson, refused to transmit the questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Crass Blasphemy | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...half an hour later the Seniors will form and march in. At 11 o'clock the exercises will be opened, and Barrett Williams '28 will deliver the class oration. He will be followed by C. C. Abbott '28, who will recite the class poem, and J. C. Drier '28 will complete the program with his recitation of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLORFUL PROGRAM TO FILL BUSIEST DAY OF COMMENCEMENT ACTIVITIES | 6/19/1928 | See Source »

...Drier '28, R. C. Glenn '30, and H. J. Wallace '38 sctarred on the attack for the Crimson with two goals apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM DOWNS SPRINGFIELD GROUP 6 TO 5 | 5/17/1928 | See Source »

...does not favor repealing and which, "of course," he stands for enforcing vigorously, sincerely. "It must be worked out constructively," said Candidate Hoover, leaving public information about where it was. Clarence Darrow, cynic lawyer, tried to illuminate by announcing, in Cincinnati: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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