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...rolled on to Omaha by bus. He flew to Buffalo Bill's old territory around North Platte, and to the cowtown of Alliance. He hung professionally over the ring of a hog auction, attended a farm picnic of hot dogs and baked beans, spoke from the top of a hotel marquee with his hair flying in the wind...
...voters of town gathered in the meeting house at Gospel Hollow to name their officers, vote their taxes, and consider the condition of their schools and roads. In addition to settling these governmental matters, the meeting was (as it usually is) is the occasion for an annual winter picnic...
...tendency to ignore this fact. . . . The sentimental idea that literature is first and last a dreamland of desire has led many school administrators, under the impression that they are being progressive, to permit the old-fashioned hard work of grammar, language, and letters to be displaced by an elaborate picnic of adolescent emotions...
CRIMSON editors have been called upon to visit the Plympton Street Palace tonight for the annual picnic and picture, authorities revealed last night. Free refreshments will be served throughout the festivities, which will begin more promptly than ever at 7:30 o'clock sharp...
...scenes Republican, Butler was a close adviser of Teddy Roosevelt (who dubbed him "Nicholas Miraculous"). Later they quarreled, and Butler became William Howard Taft's running mate in 1912. In 1920 he made his own vain bid for the Republican nomination, with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Picnic in November." But politicians could not overcome a suspicion that he was a stuffed shirt...