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...Ferguson talked, with figures and statements supporting his argument beside him. He leaned back in his chair clasping his neck with his left hand. He has extraordinary charm. His language is rich and picturesque, his grammar all his own. 'A nigger-lipped sand-lapper,' was the description of one opponent. He described the unwillingness of politicians to leave office as, 'You cain't cut a feller offen his clabber.' His enemies, he said, 'ain't worth hating, nohow...
Long have the winds tossed sand up-on the ruts where first his chariot wheels carved their royal course, long have the mysteries of death been open sesame to him, yet this king, no older than the Shavian Cleopatra, still survives. Once the leader of a kingdom, again the leader of a Twentieth Century fad, Tutankhamen has within the week eclipsed contemporary suns with the shadow of his majesty. For labor leaders, finance ministers, and even divorcees are never buried in coffins of gold in an eternal setting of jewels. A people hungry for the glints of splendor find much...
...Holy Cross band did a fine and courteous thing in playing a Harvard tune first, and then when the Harvard band played and the general expectation was that they would be equally courteous, they not merely failed to play a Holy Cross tune, but played and Harvard sand--a Harvard-Yale football song...
...twelfth green. A ball glistened 15 feet from the pin. It was Gunn's. Another huddled in the sand of a nearby pit. It was Jones'. Both had played their third shots. The champion was one down. He grasped a niblick and walked into...
...idly wondered how Von Elm had liked the way they had drawn some of the already-retiring tees still further back. How had he liked the look of that shaggy carry to the sixth green, or that oblique yawn in the eighth fairway that it took 450 tons of sand to fill? Had he often made a more perilous march than down the 601-yard twelfth, where they had smoothed the deep bunkers to dissemble innocence and the far pin retreated like a mirage...