Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...store for you this week, dear readers. And this is how it happened. The Managing Editor, called me to his office the other day and said, Joe, did you ever stop to realize that you are at once the best known and least known man in Cambridge? Is it right that a name that is on every tongue should be a name and nothing more? Must our readers be content with only an occasional glimpse of the real Joe Forecast, with only a hint of the big, human Forecast circulatory system? Won't you let one of our reporters give...
Then, though it is, hardly right, we will skip a few generations, stopping with that famous Forecast from whom I inherit my athletic ability. It was at the time during the Revolution when the British were besieged in Boston, and the Minute Men improved their idle moments in Cambridge by playing football among themselves at Soldiers Field. But Gamaliel Forecast was too fast for the Minute Men. He played on the Second Team...
After the war, Gamaliel turned to polities, and in due course of time he becam the right-hand man of our great left-handed president. Thomas Jefferson. And along about 1807 or 1808. King George, a great sport lover, got a prime minister of his named Pyle to induce several members of the Harvard and Yale crews to go over to England and now on an English crew in the championships at Wimbledon. And President Jefferson was pretty sore, too. "What is to become of amateur athletics in America if this impeachment business goes on?" he asked...
Gamaliel Was Right, Of Course...
...Gamaliel, you are right, agreed the President, who was a big enough man to bow to a superior intellect. And later when Gamaliel ran for the U. S. senate, the president issued statement saying. "He has never failed me." Gamaliel was defeated...