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...porch of a hostelry in Old Faithful, there was parked an old baggage-truck. When Mrs. Coolidge saw this early one morning, she beamed. To secret service men, to John Coolidge she expressed a desire to be wheeled about in the rude conveyance. Laughing, John Coolidge trundled his mother here and there until the diversion grew wearisome...
...toward the Illinois Women's Golf Club for women only gives you away completely. Do you think women fear male criticism whether they wear knickers or hoop-skirts to play golf ? Never believe it! No, but women are sick and tired of having to share golf clubs with rude men, men with fat stomachs and dirty cigars, dirtier language, boasting, conceit, overbearing attitude on the course when they drive right into women who are playing and treat us like lepers. They cannot hit decent shots or act decently. Half the time they are drunk while playing and debauch...
...which are deposited the Remains of a young Lady, whose artless Beauty, innocence of Mind, and gentle Manners, once obtain'd her the Love and Esteem of all who knew her, But when Nerves were too delicately spun to bear the rude Shakes and Jostlings which we meet with in this transitory World, Nature gave way; she sunk and died a Martyr to Excessive Sensibility...
...third time in three months Harvard men were humiliated. The first time was in November when a rude and ribald number of the Harvard Lampoon (funny monthly) was issued to insult Princeton (TIME, Nov. 22). The second time was when Princeton, having beaten Harvard in football "as usual," and weary of Harvard complaints, severed athletic relations. The third time was last week when a hulking onetime Harvard footballer, one Wynant D. Hubbard, 21, was discovered to have needed money badly enough to forget he was supposed to be a gentleman. Needy Mr. Hubbard had, for a sum, let Liberty (weekly...
...these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude...