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...remained the same: a man of slow gestures, always digging his hands in his pockets or twisting and turning awkwardly, as if he had caught his arms in the lining of his coat sleeves, while he expresses flawless liberal sentiments in a slow, pained voice. His friends marvel at Ambassador Winant's dress, wonder how he manages to keep his trousers so impressed, where he finds so many pale blue shirts with frayed cuffs and collars...
Pious, kindly, baggy Marvel Mills Logan, late Senator from Kentucky, was a man who wouldn't harm a flea. A peace-loving, Sunday-school-going ex-judge, he had shaggy grey locks and a nose of such W. C. Fieldsian proportions that he was once described as "looking like a rhinoceros crashing through a grass...
John Cochrane jumped on a bad Eliot center in the first period to give Lowell the ball on the 2. A Slight penalty meant nothing to Joe "The Masked Marvel" Lyford, who smashed off tackle on the first play to score standing...
...Michigan game last Saturday proved nothing else, it proved that the widely heralded Michigan Band really is the marvel it is supposed to be, and that in point of execution the Harvard Band cannot hold a candle to it. Certainly the Michigan Band, subsidized by the Buick Company and fostered by the University, has reason for being so good; nonetheless, my cars at least were amazed by its technical brilliance. Besides a hair-trigger synchronization, Michigan boasts a set of trumpets which for clarity, bite, and precision are near tops among all college bands. By comparison the Harvard Band sounds...
...Lahey did not have the heart to operate on this intact marvel. He had it carted away and photographed...