Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents of Joe de Ganahl '25, who was with the Byrd expedition to the North Pole this spring, have just received a cablegram from Commander Byrd congratulating them on the put which Ganahl played in the successful attempt to fly over the Pole. The cablegram, which was sent declining the offer of Mr. and Mrs. Ganahl to Commander Byrd to land at their decks on the return to England, stated--"Your son was splendid throughout the expedition, Congratulations...
...this afternoon at Braves Field at 1.15 o'clock, the University Second baseball team will be represented by a former and a present coach. Fred Lake, who tutored the Crimson scrubs to last year's win over Yale, will be behind the bat, stopping the curves of "Iron-man" Joe McGinnity and Mike Lynch, while Fred Parent, the present mentor of the Seconds, will be cavorting among the daisies in the shortstop position...
This is the fifty second of the series and brings joy to the hearts of those who have for so long respected the opinions of Joe Forecast '26. For that redoubtable oracle has again crashed through with she truth and nothing but by predicting even such a victory. And in future many more patrons of the diamond sport will take his words to heart, for he has brought no small change into the pockets of those who have believed...
...gray goose, the barking golden eagle, the fleet azure kingfisher, the white triangles of lonely wild swans. These come in the book's many interludes, as where Neddy Joe, the ancient lodge-keeper, sits in warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains...
...Uncle Joe Cannon, by christening "Joseph Gurney", for many years Speaker of the House, last week made it plain to reporters that he had not even considered twice what to do on his 90th birthday (May 7). His one thought has been, "Supper for three, a black cigar, the Danville (Ill.) Commercial Times, and a poker game till...