Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee wanted to ask Mr. Hays more about Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. made in 1923 a few months after Mr. Hays' fellow Cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall, had bestowed on Sinclair the crooked Teapot Dome oil lease...
William J. Bingham, Director of the Harvard Athletic Association announced yesterday that at a solemn conclave of his fellow moguls representing the Eastern Colleges all arrangements were completed for the Harvard-Yale football game to take place on Saturday, November...
...Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears the tick of a clock. They go down into the vault of the lighthouse where an octopus tickles Mr. Kelly between his shivering ribs while nobody is looking. Upstairs again for the third act, everybody confesses to be a detective...
...adjective American, as applied to the United States alone, has been officially outlawed; but only the most awkward terms have been found to replace it. United Statesian is a monstrosity, in spite of being logical. Some few Mexicans and Nicaraguans, not impressed by the brotherly attitude of their northern fellow-Americans, employ "Gringo" and "pig" in referring to them, but both of these fall short of being satisfactory. A New Englander suggests "Yankee", but Southerners consider this an insult. The vogue of "Uncle Shylock" abroad has been almost as short-lived as that of "Saviors of Democracy". The whole search...
...Current Exhibition of Japanese Decorative Art" is the subject of a lecture to be given by Langdon Warner '03, Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for research in Asia, in the large lecture hall of the Museum at 4.30 o'clock...