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White, Chace, John Gardiner, Erickson, Hallowell, Senior, Cochran, Kernan, and Dillingham; Snow, Rowe, Cary, Rile, Dud Talbot, Haupt, Scull, Holmeyer, and Burnes; Shortlidge, Lawerence, Dearborn, Huenckens, Radway, Goodwin, Leighton, Tarbell, and Derby...
...Hemingway's relations with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Plot was that Liveright, annoyed at the ribbing of his star author, Sherwood Anderson, would refuse the manuscript, thus leaving Hemingway free to join Friend Fitzgerald at Scribners. At any rate, so it turned out. Scribners took the dud Torrents of Spring, thus securing a bestseller, The Sun Also Rises, as well as all Hemingway's subsequent books. From then on, Author Hemingway was sitting pretty. In spite of the failure of Death in the Afternoon and Green Hills of Africa, his eight books published in the U. S. have...
...dealing missiles, which fell in large numbers all around the arsenal, but somehow or other failed either to hit their objective or even to explode when they crashed on the ground. When the zero hour was over, the loyalist troops rushed out to investigate and carefully opened all the "dud" explosives that had fallen. Inside each projectile were large quantities of sand, and in each was a polite note saying, "These bombs won't explode. Greetings to our dear comrades from their German friends...
...been developed in secret, but this does not seem likely because the realm of possible chemical compounds has been too well explored. Moreover, nothing could be plausibly called a supergas until it had proved itself in practice. Many an idea that looked brilliant in the laboratory has been a dud on the battlefield...
Monday night before a capacity crowd of alumni and undergraduates the Blue played a fast game with the Tiger sextet, but the goals of Bill Platt and Dud Humphrey were not enough to hold the revengeful Princetonians...