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...aside this past Lincoln's Birthday weekend. This opposition, grasping the opportunity presented by the all-quietness of the military fronts and the American people's susceptibility to pseudo-patriotic harangue on a national holiday, let fly with its heavy artillery, and the ammunition was spotted with verbal dum-dum bullets...
...good class to conclude with and so we will conclude our relations at this point." (A storm of applause.) Professor Keller peered around the room, cleared his throat: ". . . Some of you and some of your fathers have done some awfully asinine things. . . ." (Deafening applause.) Muttering a farewell, "Non dum emeritus, sed emeriturus, saluto," Professor Keller picked up his books and scooted from the room...
Composer Bennett's opener last fortnight was a "music opera" based upon a fine old U. S. song: The Man on the Flying Trapeze. Throughout the opera, the ballad tune dum-diddled along, festooned with Composer Bennett's shiniest orchestral and harmonic tricks. Best original snatch was sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday...
...Tweedle-dee-dum, tweedle-dee-dye," chorused the independent sports experts, "Three o'clock Thursday...
...about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...