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History's Bitterest Revenge: to Pigeon-Hole Him as a Rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who IS Henry Ford? | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which of the following editorials to pull from the pigeon hold marked "Good Any Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAIN OR SHINE | 6/20/1922 | See Source »

...demand of the former a greater amount and a higher standard of work for their degrees. The details of this plan show it to be entirely superfluous in a college having a liberal curriculum; and, moreover, it is highly doubtful whether students in any college would submit to being pigeon-holed in so cold-blooded a fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECTIVE EDUCATION | 11/15/1921 | See Source »

...Followed Belle Storey, "America's foremost Coloratura Soprano". Marvel of marvels, she is not only possessed of a voice and evidently has heard the English language spoken, but she is an extremely pleasant object for contemplation. We had thought that all good singers must be built on the pouter pigeon model and Miss Storey was an agreeable surprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJESTIC OFFERS GOOD BILL | 9/28/1921 | See Source »

...hardened reader of the Lampoon for years and years, and I must say I have learned to shun that annual issue to which the ex-editors contribute. Only too often it has been made up partly of the inferior work of famous graduates who fished out of a pigeon-hole their worst performance of the year and sent it along to Lampy; and partly of the ponderous jests of men who were once elected to the staff through their own sheer industry or the editors' inadvertence, and who insist on contributing to graduates' numbers just to remind an astonished public...

Author: By Frederick L. Allen ., | Title: GRADUATES COMBINE TO PRODUCE MIRTHFUL NUMBER OF LAMPOON | 3/19/1921 | See Source »

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