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...secured by our contemporary college newspapers aften makes us a bit apologetic about our own home-spun product. Last year the Yale News had an undergraduate columnist of such mettle that recently that paper came forward as publisher of his collected gems at two dollars per copy. Determined to outdo us all, the Daily Princetonian has incorporated Gertrude Stein into its staff. Careful as ever not to appear ostentatious, it does not even advertise its prize, and has made her start from the very botom writing the notice column. Since no one else could have possibly written the line...
...gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature to outdo the life...
...capital has known but two flags, the French and the British. Today, Mr. President, in your honor and in honor of our great and friendly neighbor, the flag of the United States is flying over the Citadel of old Quebec." When his turn came to show whether he could outdo his hosts in graciousness, President Roosevelt moved forward on the arm of Son James, warmed Canadian hearts by saying: "While I was on my cruise, I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler...
...pranced, whooped and hollered, marched and capered in a mighty effort to display their enthusiasm for their leader. For a full hour the parade milled round & round the hall, giving off all the noise that lungs and instruments could make, carrying placards with which each state tried to outdo the rest in promises of victory. Sixty-one minutes after the demonstration began Senator Robinson informed the demonstrators that they had broken all endurance records, had exceeded "the estimate." Drunk with their own zeal, the delegates could not stop. Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves was turned loose before the microphones...
Planning to outdo the elephant show at Cleveland where vanquished rivals joined in seconding Nominee Landon, Showman Farley had arranged for every state to second Roosevelt's renomination. That meant 48 speeches plus nine more from non-voting areas. It meant more than eight hours of fervid oratory in praise of Franklin Roosevelt. Toward midnight Chairman Robinson requested speakers to be brief but West Virginia's Senator Neely insisted on delivering a full-length speech, to which no one listened. Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines did his duty in ten words: "The Philippine Islands gratefully second...