Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of John G. Mott on board the Utah, on our cruise with the President-elect, was almost a byword...
...activities were great sport, kiddies. Peter found that you did nothing, but that the matters that needed attention were somehow attended to. And all the time there was the glory of being important. Countless little dangles hung from his watch chain and his name was on countless lips as well as often seen in the columns of the college paper. The dances were even better, for there he and his friends met all the nice girls. To Peter their conversation scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful...
Thus for four years Peter lived. He came to know everyone of importance, and as an usher at dances found his name in the papers more often than that of the football captain. This was partly due to the fact that he looked harder for his name. But this, kiddies, is not a tale with a moral. Peter did graduate; and at Commencement as he looked about him and saw the worn and haggard expressions of those men who had worked hard, or who were in posts of importance he laughed; imagine having done all that work when you could...
...retired to his country place in Virginia and took up his pen to continue influencing the country's history. President Grant stove off the fatal hand of cancer until his famous Memoirs were completed. Literary work alone would be enough to insure the fame of Theodore Roosevelt's name. Tomorrow morning Calvin Coolidge carries the tradition into Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Hampden is the Dean's middle name. His family name is Dougherty, the "Dockerties" of Brooklyn. The first boards he trod were in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he was a gangling "Shylock" in itchy whiskers at the age of 16. He had a year at Harvard and another year, to experiment with his bass-baritone voice and a certain flair for the cello, in Paris...