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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS I am a sort of a cynical cuss, Mellow and mildly sarcastic. My sensibilities hardly will muss Any more; they're elastic. I have aversions-God knows it-a score- Motor trips, talkies, recitals, College reunions-they all are a bore Paining me deep in my vitals. I dislike dancing-at least with a And only when I am drinking; Cabarets long ago lost their appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rhymester Funk | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...program for today's recital follows: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen Brahms Hyfrodol Williams

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today's Organ Recital Program | 6/5/1928 | See Source »

...told him it wasn't no last scene and my shoes hurt. It didn't even muss his hair. So he said as how his colledge was giving a dance. Guess the colledge, Ha. Ha. So I said who was they giving it to. And he said me, did I want to go. Is it a union dance I asked, remembering that my mother draws the line somewhere. No he said it was not a union dance but another kind of dance in the real colleege stile, so I said where and he said at Brattle Hall the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

...Hans Breitenstraeter and Sampson entered the ring together. Sampson has a weaving, elbowing way with him. Breitenstraeter was no Goliath. The first round was fierce. The second round was a great muss and Breitenstraeter was knocked down. In the third round Sampson swung a great blow at Hans Breitenstraeter's jaw. The umpire bent over Hans' prostrate form: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, kaputt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breitenstraeter Straffed | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman's hair. Not much like ye, them yachts. I'd like to see one o'them bo'ts beatin' round the Horn an' up to Californy in ninety-two days! That's what ye done, ole girl! Praise be there's some as ain't forgot it! Maybe some...

Author: By Burke Boyce, | Title: SHIPS, TRADITION, AND LITERATURE | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

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