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Town Topics last week rescued from oblivion a tidbit of history. In the days when Calvin Coolidge was Vice President and Charles Gates Dawes was Director of the Budget, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs Dawes struck up a very intimate friendship, and every Sunday morning the Vice President's car could be seen taking the two ladies and their husbands from the New Willard Hotel to the Congregational Church. Now the President's automobile carrying Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge still goes thither, but the Vice President's car carries Mr. and Mrs. Dawes to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church...
With puritanic prudence, the council felt they could not name a street after the rakish Steerforth. "Tis a pity, for what more appropriate designation could be found for some dark lane on the outskirts of the town. Although Steerforth must remain in Yarmouthian oblivion, the other characters will be immortalized on street corners. The councillors may well be satisfied with their work. In one stroke, they have protected public morals and preserved the memory of Dickens...
...unless they can be turned to the profitable channels of scenario writing or short story work. Are you willing to be students of the name? Thinkers that do not fainter beneath the condemnation of the sleepy, mind-covered heard that grunts and ambles its way down the ruts to oblivion?" Mlcatgan State "Green Onion...
...last his brief hour has been strutted on the stage of public fancy. The enfant gate of suburban London, the treasure of America must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright leaves while bastard epigrams evince a quick decay...
...week ago, Coach Roper picked two backfields last Monday to be used interchangeably. One was composed of Slagle, Caulkins, Bridges, and Gilligan, and the other of Ewing, Dignan, Weekes, and Prendergast. This idea seemed to blow into smoke the ensuing days and most of the backs into the oblivion of the second team. Just now it is very uncertain who will form the first backfield...