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...Lottie Truggin, already confirmed, had episcopal hands laid on her again. Thus began Parson Dottery's troubles. But everyone, with the exception of the evil-minded Canon Dib-ben, his no less evil-minded wife, did what they could to help their parson: his housekeeper, Mrs. Taste, his sexton, Truggin, Farmer Spenke, Publican Toole. Everybody in the village was a character, shrewd in his own right, simple in his own way. Unlike most books ostensibly about parsons, Kindness in a Corner should offend no parsons...
...whim the sillybilly of a Gracehoper had jingled through a jungle of love and debts and jangled through a jumble of life in doubts afterworse, wetting with the bim-blebeaks, drikking with nautonects, bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon) he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo pooveroo quant a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph or vosch to sirch for grub for his corapusse or to find a hospes. alick, he wist gnit...
While L. H. Hubbard '31 was grinding out moving pictures of some formations of the Harvard Band, a DH-60 Gypay Moth airplane, owned by Skyways. Incorporated, and piloted by E. H. L. Sexton, instructor in the Department of Archaeology after losing its altitude, grounded on Soldiers Field next to the second team football field yesterday afternoon at 4.45 o'clock. Another passenger, Gordon Cairnie, was in the plane at the time, but neither was hurt...
...plane was headed from the direction of the Yard up the River when Sexton, who is an experienced pilot, realized that either he was out of gas, or the gas feed line was broken, and headed towards Soldiers Field. Falling rapidly the plane skimmed two trees, approached the field where the band was practicing, and bounced on the ground, smashing the landing gear, propellor, and lower wings...
...sponsors of the Spread, as announced yesterday, will be C. L. Allen '29, James DeNormandie '29, A. H. Harlow '29, R. S. Holden '29, J. DeW. Bubbard '29, Gordon Huggins '29, E. W. Sexton '29, P. J. Sullivan '29, and R. G. West '29. Arrangements have been made by a committee headed by J. W. Fleming...