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...extra-curriculum activities. They had their own dramatic club, which produced The Clouds of Aristophanes and Electro, of Euripides. Then, fraternizing their classical strides, the students adopted as the official uniform of the Experimental College a blue blazer with pearl grey trimming and with emblem of sacred Athenian owl. Many a Wisconsin's farmer's son twitted them for wearing it. The relations of the faculty and students were close-teas and chats being mentioned with enthusiasm. Some of the boys must have looked into Author Ernest Hemingway, for here is the way they describe members...
...Merchants. Humanitarian gizzards pulsated last week upon mention of a new $25,000,000 corporation to manufacture and distribute machines which-for a nickel, dime, quarter or slug dropped into a slot-will deliver any one of a thousand commodities, from candy to cathartics. Three drug store chains (Liggett, Owl, Walgreen), Happiness Candy Stores, United Cigar, Schulte, Union News, McCrory, Woolworth, Penney, Metropolitan and Grant stores will thus dispense part of their wares, and as smartly as their clerks the machines will cry out "Thank you" to the customers. They will also say "Corked tips protect the lips," or some...
...familiarity with rivers and dams and husbanding food through lean seasons. Any man of distinctive personality and appearance resembles some animal. Senator Borah is a bear; Secretary Mellon, an aging horse of fine blood; Senator Heflin, an astounding whale calf; Senator Johnson, a caged lion; Senator Norris, an owl; Senator Watson, a roguish elephant; Charles Evans Hughes, a lofty mountain goat; Will H. Hays, a monkey; Curtis Dwight Wilbur, a stork. Herbert Clark Hoover is a beaver-man, aged 53, in his prime...
General Cigar Co. (Robert Burns, White Owl, William Penn, Laddies, Van Dyck) ?$3,366,136. Previous year, $2,562,812. Adolf Gobel, (sausages)?$408,465. Previous year...
...decoration while U. S. Chief Executive. The cross was sent to the Department of State, to be kept in trust until President Coolidge becomes eligible to wear it. ¶Two months ago (TIME, March 21), Wilson Jackson, Negro porter and keeper of the presidential collection of raccoon, collies, bees, owl, etc., rolled his large eyes, blew on his large hands when told that two lion cubs were coming to the White House, gifts of the Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa, brought by one C. B. Deitz, Omaha coalman. Last week the cubs (Joe & Hannah) arrived, aged ten months; size, larger...