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There go-getting George Halas started his career as a football entrepreneur. Remembering Illinois Coach Bob Zuppke's everlasting moan that his players always graduated just as they got to be good, Halas decided to round up recent college graduates for a professional team. The following year (1921), Halas took his Staleys to Chicago, rented the Cubs ball park, renamed his team the Bears, became a charter member of the National Football League...
...would like to ask what the big-mouthed Johnny Bulls ever did. Long ago they let one of their colonies, U.S.A., take them into camp. They [Johnny Bulls] moan at the Germans for taking land and yet they stole half of the world. Oh, that was splendid! The Germans at least proved they were men enough to take something. They don't sneak around with their sly tongues and steal something by the use of big mouths. Them and their big mouths and umbrellas...
...years ago, the only reason anybody wanted to her Cab Calloway was to see the King of Hi-Di-Ho tear the stage into small splinters, put his larynx to such weird uses as gargling "Chinese Rhythm", and moan the immortal "Minnie The Moocher...
...heaving moan of the wind. The whining fury of tortuous grief, and brutal guffaws . . . The tracks are wiped out, covered up, never existed. A frenzied, senseless whirl. Laughter...
...moan from anyone now. In a minute we were all cracking jokes and shaking hands. The steward and I thumped each other on the backs, and when the next flare went up I saw that his face was wreathed in smiles...