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...Sophomore year before whose fire you'll sit or who will sit round yours, for friendships seem to form and develop slowly here; but somehow you will be sitting in a small group about a fire before you leave, with pipes going and a tapped keg on the window sill, following with your mind the tenuous movements of live conversation. More than anything else you can be sure of you can be sure of this, here, if you want it, there is pleasant natural education
...mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They climb the Alps and get lost in the snow. They meet a jolly hermit. They foil the robbers who follow them disguised as minstrels in an empty beer keg on wheels. Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold. This fails too when the string of hurdy-gurdies cascade down a mountain trail in a careening dance. The robbers...
...reported that he was "drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife and eight children, the powder exploded, razed the house, killed three...
There Professors Taussig, Ferry. Graustein, Harris, Pratt, and Lamb gathered with some 35 students eager to imbibe some new theories, and a little beer besides. Although the theories flowed freely, very little liquid was left for students, since the economists quickly emptied one whole keg of Harvard Larger (advt...
Died. Harry E. Wilken Sr., 63, long-time whiskey distiller, concocter of Wilken Family Blended Whiskey (TIME, Aug. 25), which Schenley Distillers Corp. promoted by homey advertisements showing Wilken's kin (Sons Harry Jr. & William. Son-in-law Tom) draped around a whiskey keg, smacking their lips, proclaiming to each other: "It's our family whiskey. Neighbor and neighbor-it's your price"; of a heart ailment; in Tarentum...