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...newshawks or Secretary Morgenthau had expected to find the old man in a mellow mood on laying down his duties, they received a rude surprise. Taciturn Chief Moran's mood was black and rueful. A reporter asked if his recent absence from duty was due to sickness...
Talk from Amherst sound big, but to Huey, who has no Fearon that account, that just Amherst-like jingoism. Lady Luck will double-cross Jordan today, for Newcomb-ers will have Watt I call rude a Wilkening, Visitors' hope will deKlein, and then they Lamb out of here quick. It Snow-ball game to Harvard--just more practice. Huey sees Winter day by Adlis 19-0 score. Also if Yanks not too Rolfe with bats, Fitzsimmons Ott to take third game of ball, Landis means series goes to Giants. Score today, Giants 5, Yanks...
...January 1923, the "will" is a contemporary character analysis of the Communist high command. Of Stalin, Lenin says: "He has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes unsupportable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin...
...done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland County...
...eager for change as Scarlett. He had got a bad reputation for his common-sense bluntness about Southern conventions. He said the Yanks would win the War because they had all the factories and because the immigrants were pouring into the North. He was self-seeking and rude on principle in his recoil from the affected gallantry he saw all around him. When the War broke he became a blockade runner and made money with his unpatriotic speculations. But Scarlett married Melanie's brother for spite, was a widow two months later, moved to Atlanta to be with Melanie...