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When Nathan and Lewis and Mencken put to sea in their pea-green boat there was room for only three. And so Upton Sinclair was left on the beach while the Great Emancipators set forth for New York or heaven. Boston is near the shore, though, and soon the first literary travelling man found himself in the old Back Bay Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang...
Wilhelm: "The 27-year old son of my youngest sister arrived in the U. S. The New York American described him as 'tall, handsome, blond, his pink and white face smoothly shaven, . . . nattily attired in a pea-green suit.' It further stated that 'as he stepped off the dock he was effusively greeted by two comely and stylishly clothed young women.' Reporters called my nephew's attention to a newspaper headline which referred to me as 'War Lord.' Said he: 'I dislike to seem to criticize, but if you find it necessary...
...Cornell Era says we clip the following from the HARVARD HERALD, and we must confess our ignorance as to where they got it, for it is not credited to any one. We confess our ignorance as to where the articles "A New Course," "The Pea-green Sunflower," etc., contained in the last Era were obtained; but we suppose they must have come from the pen of the editors, as they were not credited...