Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gram Dunham, 71, wife of Mellie Dunham (Henry Ford's famed Maine fiddler), went into the woods near Norway, Me. with a rifle, killed a buck deer, dragged it home, butchered it for steaks & chops. Said she: "When a family in the country needs fresh meat, a rifle in the hand is worth two fiddles...
Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that "the affair died a natural death. I thought everyone understood that...
Between the halves Coach Alonzo Stagg said something to his son, Quarterback Paul Stagg. When the Chicago team came out for the third period it moved smoothly down the field for one touchdown, then raced widely for another. Top-heavy Tigers obeyed as well as they could Coach Roper's furious "Get-the-hell-in-there-and-fight!" Chicago 15, Princeton...
...southern team (West Virginia Wesleyan), David Myers, who is a Negro, sat on the bench "with a cold." When Coach Meehan admitted he had agreed not to play Myers against Georgia, N. Y. U. students promised to boycott the game. Thereupon Meehan announced that Myers would play. Myers said: "If I felt I wasn't wanted in the game I wouldn...
Things to Be Done. Syracuse University needs $30,000 more for its surveying and mapping studies. It will get it by New Year's Day, said Harry Guggenheim last week. The European aeronautical societies each want $10,000. They will...