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When Max Beerbohm wrote Zuleika Dobson, his farcical satire on Oxford (1911), he included in that gallery of light-hearted caricatures a character who still stands as the type - at least to English eyes - of the U. S. Rhodes Scholar. Abimelech V. Oover, like his brothers, was an admirable and good-hearted fellow, but there was something about him the English found oppressive. "Altogether, the American Rhodes Scholars, with their splendid gift of oratory, and their modest desire to please, and their not less evident feeling that they ought merely to edify . . . and their constant fear that they are being...
Seattle, Wash. oover Sirs...
...your issue of Aug. 22 you stated that the odds in Manhattan are 25 to 1 that the next President of the United States will have in his last name the letters "oover...
When your dear man Count 'Oover...
...Califo-ornia's delegation-elected by six hundred thou-usand voters-in an uncontested pri-mary-present to you-for President of the Uni-ited States-America's gree-eatest administrator in human welfare-Her-r-rber-r-rt Hoo-oover...
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