Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just as Mr. Hoover's "biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small but active dolphin. Unaware of any call for etiquette, the Sullivan dolphin rushed across the Hoover line, fouled it, dragged the new Hoover reel off the new Hoover rod. As Pundit Sullivan landed his dolphin, the sun sank. The President-elect went home for supper. Allan Hoover, out fishing with Secretary George Akerson, caught nothing and thereby caused his mother to lose...
...Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity. For those who find a vestigeal interest in the intellectual slowly reviving this morning, the following lectures are recommended...
...bright paid patterns, makes a deep impression upon the outer world. The idea that a garment has crossed the ocean gives it a prestige not attainable by other means; and, in speaking of one's winter wardrobe, it is much better, to say "I'm going to send a line to my man," that "I'm going in to the tailor's." Prices, above all, should be estimated in pounds, shillings, and pence, and be aired in at least every third sentence...
...long line of philosophers who have tried to explain the Earth's origin, the best died last week. He was Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 85, professor emeritus of geology at the University of Chicago. His death was due to heart disease, made worse by bronchial pneumonia. His theory, the planetesimal, he ex pounded again in a new book published only last month - The Two Solar Families - the Sun's Children (University of Chicago Press, $2.50). In brief his theory is this : Eons ago a Star, swished near the Sun and by its gravity, sucked a great, explosive cloud...
Several goalies are in line for the berth left vacant by the graduation of Joseph Morrill Jr. '28. The most promising are W. L. Elkins '29, O. P. Jackson '29, H. H. Newell, '29, and Hardy Ellis '31. M. G. Gammack '31, stellar goalie on last year's Freshman team, is ineligible for the team. Of last year's Freshman contingent, S. L. Batchelder '31 and J. B. Garrison '31 seem to be the most promising prospects...