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Last week, through the Press, the long arm of Rumor reached out and tried to pluck Justice Stone from the sanctity of the supreme chamber and place him at the head of the Law Enforcement Commission which President Hoover is slowly selecting. Annoyed or embarrassed, Justice Stone protested: "The matter has not been proposed to me nor have I it under con sideration or in mind...
...that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a line containing "etaoin shrdlu." And when the operator forgets to pluck the faulty line from the mould, "etaoin shrdlu" gets into print. So often has "etaoin shrdlu" appeared with a "Mr." prefixed, that Mr. Etaoin Shrdlu has really become a famed press personage. He has a relative who dwells on his right hand in the third vertical row on a linotype...
...College 12, had two closets, one for clothes, the other for coal. Coal & clothes were sometimes mixed and perhaps, sitting on the chaste Grecian steps of Manning Hall discussing the lectures of loved Latin Professor John L. Lincoln with his classmate & fraternity brother, Charles Evans Hughes, he would absently pluck a bit of black dust from waistcoat pocket. No. 12 Hope College is now inhabited by blackamoors, being in the heart of Brown's Harlem...
College New Year is no different. The average undergraduate weighs himself in the balance of his self-esteem and finds himself wanting something. So he takes his pennies of ability, judgment, and loyalty and goes into the market place to buy. There are merchants here; hawkers, who pluck him by the arm and bawl into his ears; others who are quietly content, confident that the attractiveness of their wares will sell them to all who see and are worthy of ownership...
...Called to command, he found himself a sort of Falstaff reviewing the tatterdemalions of politics, not a few of them outcasts from the G. O. P. He looked again and discovered also in the loose and undisciplined Hoover ranks, in addition to half-ruined guerrillas that were beginning to pluck up hope, an assortment of poets, prophets, hymn singers, professional reformers, unclassified uplifters, novelists, Federal office holders, reformed bootleggers, Anti-Saloon League superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold...