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...entered the portal of old Appleton he so loved, he heard the swish of a gown and a low growl. Appleby gave the familiar spaniel a playful kick in the ribs and turned around to face the front of Jove himself...
...below Christopher Morley's (Where the Blue Begins), from dog-lovers. If he could read it, Toes would ejaculate: "Great Spratt! I say, you chaps, that is a book! My copy is all dog-eared." It would impress Kim, too, but being reticent and profane, he would doubtless growl: "My Dog, cut your row, Toes. Every Legs, you know...
...alone. Then Koenig fumbled, Meusel muffed, and the Cardinals scored thrice. In the sixth, New York squeaked in its second run and in the seventh filled the bases with two out. As swart Lazzeri dawdled to the plate, the Cardinals huddled around Pitcher Haines. In the stands an angry growl rose to pandemonium. Manager Hornsby came out of the huddle and shouted towards the distant "bull pen" (where pitchers practice). No one appeared. Fielder Hafey spun on his heel to carry the message, when a lumbering, red-sweatered figure appeared. "Alexander!" yelled the stands. That freckled runagade went...
...college cramp, affecting the University. Spring has not yet come to cure that ill.. So dog days continue to rule. Yet even the very least of university Pollyannas must remember that canines, though necessary beings, are not, after all, the most delightful companions when they continue to growl like child Menckens. The weather is rather impossible; the divisionals very near at hand; the tutorial reading twice as inglorious as the poorest want ad--and woe is truly upon every ice cake and puddle of existence. But cynicism usually prefaces belief. And the sun really is getting farther and farther...
...sarcastic in your review when writing upon Mr. T. Dreiser's book? Did you personally ever try to do a bit of real writing? Your reviews remind me a great deal of the Mexicans. They hate Gringoes like the dickens, but all they really do is snarl and growl like curs. In the Jan. 25, 1926 issue of TIME, under "Books," p. 31, you act like you have a personal grudge against the writer...