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...only the subjects. Each professor seems suddenly to have only one very shabby suit of clothes. Each enters the classroom with the same irritating shamble and toils through the day's matter in much the same monotonous drone. There is roast beef in all the Houses for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner, and for a demitasse. There is a very poor movie in all the theatres in town; there is very poor rhum in every bottle in Cambridge; there is a most strident and complaining voice through every fire door in the college. There is the same bland...
...streams to emerge in Ossabaw Sound. Gus Ohman, a guide who had taken President Cleveland fishing in these Georgia waters, told President Hoover the fish were "biting like hungry tigers" but the President got not even a nibble the first day out. Christmas Eve the President & party feasted on roast oysters at the Ossabaw Island place of H. N. Torrey of Detroit. They ate Christmas dinner as the guests of Howard Earle Coffin on Sapelo Island where Calvin Coolidge was entertained four years ago. Mr. Coffin and the President are remote cousins, their families having gone west together from North...
...Fascist Deputies goose-stepped into the Reichstag, wearing brown uniforms with red swastika armbands - all except General Litzmann. Conspicuous in an ordinary business suit pinned with all his medals, Speaker Litzmann climbed the rostrum amid Communist boos & shouts of "Defeated General!", rapped sternly for order and proceeded to roast President von Hindenburg as only one old soldier can roast another...
Potatoes Parisienne Roast Boneless Baby Chicken with Jelly...
...Charles Anderson Dana: "And who do you think he brought along with him? Roscoe Conklin, the Senator. They sat up all night at that cockfight." Of John L. Sullivan: "I made John L. sports editor of my sheet [The Illustrated News']. It was handy . . . whenever I wanted to roast anyone I would put the roasting in Sullivan's column. Nobody ever made any objection." Of The Police Gazette: "The way we got so popular with barbers was from printing their pictures. . . . We ran a lot of pieces about barbers, and that's how we got started...