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...kept them aboard five hours after sinking their Clement was the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. This identity could still be doubted by people who know that German sailors wear bogus hatbands some of the time, to confuse their victims; but English freighter captains and Scottish engineers are hard to fool...
Another rumor started by some pessimistic fool, was that the Rodney had been sunk. This arose because some naval officers were playing Shove Ha'penny, or some equally exciting game, somewhere or other, and one of the players was called Rodney. He was losing very heavily and when at last he gave up, one of his companions cried joyfully "Rodney is sunk." The Mess waiter or somebody somewhere in the room told his best girl - hence the rumor...
...there. Members of the Congress, of course, should not be allowed to serve successive terms. Neither should Presidents. To date the cost of reelections in this country is most of the National Debt. Youth should not ask for representation. Youth should take it, and plenty of it. A young fool is a better bet than an old fool...
Your fine editorial against some of the great leaders of this country in trying to build a high-way to war was indeed excellent. We were fooled in the World War. As Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time." The great Pope Leo XIII enlarged on the crisp words of Lincoln...
...fact that Harvard's grid schedule this year includes three snap games. "Two snaps ought to be enough in an average year," he says, "but what's the use of our going in for suicide schedules? If Harvard went in for hiring professionals, they wouldn't have to fool around with set-up opening games...