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Stanford, 7 June, 1902 "So there is no maw gaw to shed in the Baw Waw. The paw praw-Baws will feel saw ! The praw-Baws are an awful baw! They gained no eclaw by taking the flaw! I set no staw by them. They are rotten at the caw. So no maw from...
...methods of assessment. One wing rather casually sometimes speaks of him 'trippingly on the tongue' as 'that God damn Roosevelt,' short, snappy and staccato-but without grinding the vocal gears. The other crowd snarls it savagely, adagio, making two words out of God-like Gaw-ud-and two out of damn-like da-yam-growled with heart-pumping scorn and generally with a table-pounding drum beat. I belong to the lighter, staccato left wing...
...philanthropist and art-lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...
...Chicago, George Gaw, Chicago's onetime official greeter of celebrities, sued Lake Erie Chemical Co. in vain for $100,000 damages for the loss of the middle finger on his right, greeting hand, when one of the company's tear gas fountain pens exploded in his hand...
...Chicago. Colonel (Kentucky &. Oklahoma ) George D. Gaw filed a claim for $16,347 with the City for services rendered as Official Greeter. Appointed to that post July 3, 1931, Col. Gaw made a name for himself by going to greeting in snow-white clothes, a snow-white car escorted by motorcycles. He wrote a greeting song ("Greetings, Chicago Welcomes You."), encouraged functionaries to make brief factual recitals to visitors (Bell boys: "Happy Days. Sir; 20,000 speakeasies in the City."). With the election of Mayor Kelly, he returned to the envelope business. Explained he : "There is no salary...