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...Spokane at 7:15 a.m. on Sunday morning over a hundred turned out at Union Station to greet Candidate Dewey; 3,000 were turned away from an Early Birds' Club breakfast; crowds lined the sidewalk outside the Civic Building for an afternoon reception. ("Is your industrial plant built? Are you all through? Are you just going to sit still and struggle over the division of what you have...
Harvard's former Law Dean Roscoe Pound used to greet his entering class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the persons seated on either side of you-for one of you will not be with us next year." Last week Yale's Dean Gulliver was able to say to his first-year class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the men seated on either side of you-for both of them are Phi Beta Kappas." Yale's School, annually besieged by four times as many applicants as it can admit, can pick & choose...
...could no longer stand his rehearsing amateur parts at home. The Journal could not stand the retractions and libel suits its imaginative new hand kept getting his paper into. Later other papers felt the same way. So young Tom switched to vaudeville. Then he landed a job with Ben Greet's Shakespearean players, followed by two years of carrying Shakespeare to U. S. college campuses in the company of Charles Coburn. By 1920, Mitchell had played some 55 Shakespearean roles, has played none since...
Viceroy. On Good Friday 1926, the new Viceroy's ship rounded Point Colaba and anchored off the ornamental Gateway of India in Bombay Harbor. Ashore India was prepared to greet her new ruler with the customary fanfare. India waited. Lord Irwin sent word that he considered Good Friday an inappropriate day for pomp. Instead he went ashore unofficially to attend a three-hour Good Friday agony service in Bombay. Not until the next morning did the new ruler officially step from his launch to Indian soil while the white warships of the Indian squadron boomed 31 guns...
...would knock and greet the unsuspecting students with an extended money pan and a sentimental story. But they didn't get far, for after they had collected a sizeable amount and were about to make their escape, the due met a squad of Yard police who immediately escorted them out of the Yard...