Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest you write paper stating about as follows-'I did not expect you take my letter of yesterday as seriously as you did, for it was only meant as a joke. I am on the membership commence of the Hoover-for-President Club and my signature on the club paper is bona fide...
...much surprised, and not at all pleased to discover that my signature had been forged to one of the lists and I thought you might be interested enough to start a thorough investigation of such terrible goings on. There is nothing, I should like to see in your little paper more than a tally of the genuine signatures and those creations of an imaginative Republican with somewhat criminal tendencies...
...founder of the line, had the sagacity to marry two heiresses. Harry Flood Byrd started being businesslike at the age of 14, when he gave up school to take over his father's bankrupt Winchester Star. The Star has paid from then till now. So have another, larger Byrd-paper, the Harrisonburg News-Record, and the 1,500-acre Byrd apple orchards...
...this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast of inefficiency all the admirably handled examinations that preceded him. The bluebook snatcher is armed...
Since that crisis the Founder has not been troubled by cries of "Paper Shoes!" Today his wares are sold in Chicago by Marshall Field & Co., in Cleveland by the May Co., in New York by Macy's-for $3.94, $3.95 or $3.96, except that de luxe Bat'a shoes sell...