Word: gridironic
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Page, a member of the Council for the first time this spring, will be Varsity football manager next fall. He has been active on the gridiron since his Freshman year, at which time he won the managing competition...
...Jefferson's birthday is April 13, but since that date was not a Saturday and since the President had a previous engagement with the Gridiron Club on the Saturday following, Democrats postponed Jefferson's birthday for twelve days...
...evening last week three candidates for President, Franklin Roosevelt, Publisher Frank Knox and Senator Arthur Vandenberg. sat down with many another bigwig of Politics. Business and Press. They laughed until their sides ached at the political slapstick of the Gridiron Club's spring dinner. When the fun was over at a late hour. President Roosevelt, feeling all warm and good inside, went back to the White House. There he found waiting him a message from the Naval Hospital: Louis McHenry Howe, his No. 1 secretary, was dead. Mrs. Roosevelt was already telephoning the news to Mrs. Howe in Boston...
...Howe had struggled for years with a decrepit constitution. His life was despaired of in March 1935, during an attack of bronchitis. From the White House he was moved to the Naval Hospital where he astounded his doctors by remaining alive. On the night of last week's Gridiron dinner he had gone to sleep and, for no particular reason, his tired heart stopped beating...
...summer of 1934 when Louis Howe's health began seriously to fail. Franklin Roosevelt has stirred up burning bitterness against himself that was quite unnecessary. Whether Louis Howe might have prevented needless antagonism no man will ever know, for, when the President got into bed after the Gridiron dinner, Louis Howe was gone forever...