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...there was one voice raised besides George Bernard Scrooge's. It was a superb opportunity for that professionally altruistic sheetlet the Nation, and the voice therein belonged to one Eugene Lyons. To his editor's delight, Writer Lyons burlesqued the annual spectacle of U. S. newspapers trying to outdo one another in seasonal generosity and solicitude. He pictured Prosperity, "a big, blustering fellow," momentarily obscured in the national circus by sideshows of infirmity and destitution...
University Should Outdo Greeks...
Whoop it up for dear old Colton, the co-ed college where the scene is laid, for Charles Paddock--Himself, and for the janitor's pet mouse which ran up Bebe Daniel's silk stocking, frightened the haughty young lady, and made her outdo the best girl hurdler old Colton could boast. Whoop it up for the Kappa Betas, who taught the haughty young lady a lesson, and then when she had won the relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory...
Lord & Thomas learned that Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago, having made one fortune out of patent medicines, was about to outdo himself with a new toothpaste. Lord & Thomas straightway learned all that there was to know in fact and theory, about the gritty white ooze that Mr. Smith's chemists had carefully concocted, and all that there was to know about the toothpaste market-the best distribution areas, geographic and economic. Then Lord & Thomas prepared messages to the public about Mr. Smith's toothpaste and laid before Mr. Smith a program as to where these messages should...
...quadrangular regatta promises to outdo in importance the four-cornered struggle last spring, when Pennsylvania, Cornell, and M.I.T. trailed the Crimson...