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Cornell disposed of Yale with ease Wednesday night and played the tough Dartmouth team only last night. Whether the boys are big enough and tough enough to stand the gaff of three games in four nights will be one of the big questions tonight...
Finally, a burly policeman who could not stand the gaff, passed out with a loud expiration, and Vag leaped over his prostrate body to grab a handful of Valentine cards--frilly ones with Cupids and lace, uproarious ones with embarrassed beans, and sentimental ones with honey sayings. Wrapping one arm around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime...
...split second a huge tarpon vaulted out of the inky sea, "his eyes glaring like the headlights of an automobile and his body shining like an electric sign." For 55 minutes they struggled-the big "silver king" making 27 frenzied leaps before he was finally brought to gaff...
...gumshoes were bigging the do apple and the showel toot was orchestring the leader, but it was light outside and strangers were hanging big red "H's" with coats on them and said they was Harvard Brom Selt--no, Harvard something. So "Quince" Morrissey and 14 of the stymm gaff rushed down to find me saying "The Red comes are coating" but he was watching guys in tuxes doing the empty Bromo Seltzer in the big apple around my swimming pools, while a lot of people were sitting on each others' shoulders around the edges and muggin' something like...
...John Stuart Martin, vacationing TIME editor: the New York Rod & Gun Editors' annual award for the No. 1 angling exploit of 1937. Angler Martin's feat: bringing to gaff an 821-lb. tuna (new North American record), after a 4¾-hour struggle during which his efforts at times seemed as discouraging as trying to "tickle a locomotive in the tender...