Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a treat in store for you this week, dear readers. And this is how it happened. The Managing Editor, called me to his office the other day and said, Joe, did you ever stop to realize that you are at once the best known and least known man in Cambridge? Is it right that a name that is on every tongue should be a name and nothing more? Must our readers be content with only an occasional glimpse of the real Joe Forecast, with only a hint of the big, human Forecast circulatory system...
...Joe Cites Dartmouth Case...
...hello, Joe," he said. And I didn't mind him calling me Joe. I have become used to that quick familiarity that one must accept hand in hand with greatness. But he continued, and I didn't just like his tone, "Are you going to make a comeback this week, Joe...
...always, I called upon good old Jess Hawley immediately after his arrival. "Wah-Hoo-Wah, Jess," I said. It is part of my big democratic nature always to speak to people in their own language. "Wah-Hoo-Wah," Joe," he responded heartily, for we are great friends. "Thanks for trying to help me out last Saturday," he continued. For, as you all remember. I tried to instill confidence at the last moment into Jess's team by predicting they would score 27 points against Yale. Now wasn't that absurd? Ofcourse. I couldn't carry the deception...
...does it look for tomorrow, Joe?" he asked with apparent nonchalance, but I could see his besom heave and re-heave as he waited. I couldn't bear to crush him with anything definite, so I just said. "Well, Jess, it will; take three touchdowns to win, and you know what three touchdowns...