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...While Johnny postured for company Jimmy reached across the table and ate up all Johnny's soup. "Stop that, Jimmy," cried Father Wood. Jimmy stopped, then surreptitiously kicked Johnny on the shins under the table. Explained Father Wood: "Johnny's a gentleman, but Jimmy's a mug." Added Mother Wood, wearily: "Jimmy's much more bossy. When he wants something...
...spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights him. . He used to like to putter...
Another adv.--We want every Harvard man to use Noisette Shaving Cream, the "aristocrat" of all shaving soaps, with our compliments. Your box--a creamy, pasty soap becomes your mug...
WINTER IN Moscow-Malcolm Mug-geridge-Little, Brown...
Kirkland is the only club to have gone entirely through its schedule, and this they did without dropping a single contest. So they win the silver mug this year without any dispute whatsoever from any source. The deacons, however, did meet a plenty tough snag, when the Bulldogs came up here last Friday and mangled them to the tune...