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Kinney, the Apthorp monkey who disappeared a week ago Saturday, returned to his winter apartments last night, tired of his diet of "The Book of Knowledge" and linoleum rugs on which he had been living in an East Cambridge boarding house. At eight o'clock yesterday evening a taxicab, with closed doors, stopped before the Crimson Building while the driver and three owners coaxed, ordered and finally forced the evasive guest into a box preparatory to removing him to his old quarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kinney, Scratching and Screaching, Returns to Apthorp Sick of Linoleum Rugs and East Cambridge Landlady | 10/9/1923 | See Source »

...finely a ball was kicked to same and he catched it and run with it. The usual procedure in football as I have come to understand it is for a defensive full back to wait for a kick to start comeing and then lay down on a well-greased linoleum rug and begin playing cross-eyed parchesi with the man he graduated from high school. But this time this Buell guy catched the kick and run back with it towards the opponents' ghoul and the old blue Eli declared it was foul tactics but the referee said willy nilly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS-EYED PARCHESI ON LINOLEUM RUGS NO GAME FOR AN OLD MAN | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

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