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...time in January. John W. Davis, candidate for President in the 1924 campaign, and Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana are among other probable speakers, and former Governor W. E. Sweet of Colorado may be here some time this week to discuss possible issues for next year's political foray William G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury, has also been invited to appear under the auspices of the Democratic Club, which is planning several open forums to clarify the political situation in the minds of undergraduates...
...grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction- which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator, instead of exerting his greatest efforts in harrying a fine...
...terrifying odors; a snort of alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...
Senator Bingham: "Who was responsible for that foray...