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Henry Ford: "An interviewer asked me about my presidential ambitions. Said I: ' I wouldn't step as far as from here to that rug to become King of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...short time ago a college man missed an overcoat from an auto which he had left in front of the dormitory. On the same day a rug was taken. Both these losses were reported to the watchman, but for a week the case remained a mystery. Finally someone getting out of bed at six in the morning happened to look out of the window, and saw a boy crawling from under the building. Upon investigation the missing rug and overcoat were found stored away beneath the steps. Further investigation disclosed the fact that the boy had a home in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROMANCE AND PENNIES | 12/2/1922 | See Source »

...ball was kicked to same and he catched it and run with it. The usual procedure in football as I have come to understand it is for a defensive full back to wait for a kick to start comeing and then lay down on a well-greased linoleum rug and begin playing cross-eyed parchesi with the man he graduated from high school. But this time this Buell guy catched the kick and run back with it towards the opponents' ghoul and the old blue Eli declared it was foul tactics but the referee said willy nilly and what could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS-EYED PARCHESI ON LINOLEUM RUGS NO GAME FOR AN OLD MAN | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

...schedule, and man representing the box in which the furniture will go, must be on hand to accompany it to the Union. Unless these conditions are fulfilled furniture will not be moved. Th committee further advised that the following pieces of furniture should be in each box; one small rug, six by eight feet; one couch; one small table; a lamp; and the necessary number of small chairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE PLANS FOR MOVING FURNITURE FOR DANCE | 2/28/1922 | See Source »

...Junior Dance Committee requests that anyone knowing the whereabouts of any of the following pieces of furniture notify R. R. Higgins, Randolph 39 at once: 1 morris chair, 1 lamp with metal stand (2 bulbs), 2 straight back chairs, 1 large red and black rug, 3 small rugs. The following pieces of furniture have not been called for at the Union: 2 wicker chairs, 2 straight back chairs, 1 desk chair, 1 wooden arm chair, 1 bench, 1 leather cushion, 1 vase, 1 green rug, 1 brass ash stand, 1 large rug, 1 red pillow with Harvard Seal, 1 table...

Author: By R. R. Higgins ., | Title: JUNIOR DANCE NOTICE | 3/12/1921 | See Source »

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