Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reports to the White House from Plymouth, Vt., told of the flagging strength of the President's father. They were none too hopeful, but the President was sufficiently reassured to go for a week-end cruise on the Mayflower, Calvin Coolidge, the President's father, was reported less satisfactory last week. He was in some keeping in touch with his father's condition by radio...
...given last evening in the Elks' Ball Room on Lansdowne Street by members of the university humorous publication, the Blah. Among those present were Miss Annie Sweeney of Railroad Avenue who was becoming in a neat little outfit of salmon georgette whose host for the evenings' merriment was none other than Lalapunta's pride, Anthony Hogginswifter, president of the Blah. But with no discourtesy intended the choice of old Ant as the boys call him, we feeel it only just to say that the treasurer of the university's humorous publication had the pick of the town. For his dainty...
...purpose hardly a credit to a student's ambition. While the interchange of educational parts made possible by College Board Examinations is a happy convenience, it has its cultural limitations. It will be far nobler when the man who prepares at Oscaloosa High either secures a Harvard degree or none at all. A substitute is a poor panacea, and it is toward the elimination of such lackadaisical education that the new Committee will work...
Another character has stepped from the pages of history into the spotlight of publicity and that none other than the Cumaean Sybil, a lady old at her trade when the glory of Rome was undimmed by northern indiscretions and Aeneas was neither pious nor peregrinating. For she was among the first to practice what W. C. Fields might well describe as--the old army game...
...filed suit in Federal Court there to restrain promotion of the food products concern as a potential violator of the Clayton anti-trust act. The food corporation lawyers laughed, called the suit "a joke." In "about ten minutes" an answer could be prepared, would be filed the next day. None was. Last week lawyers came into court and abjectly consented to the modification of the corporation's intents...