Word: shemokin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that he comes from Shemokin...
...undecided about the CRIMSON--they wouldn't accept my contributions to the Confidential Guide to College Courses, giving me some silly excuse about having no money to defend libel suits. That was uncalled for, because I've always loved my teachers. Back in the sixth grade in Shemokin Pa., I put a large red apple on teacher's desk daily, and Freshman year I gave my German A instructor a box of ripe red raspberries one day and a basket of nice prickly pears the next...
...frankly I am worried. Football isn't the game it used to be when I last hung up my mud-stained moleskins in the Shemokin gym. What with bilateral passes and other sleight-of-hand tricks allowed, and with the goal-posts moved back so the near-sigthed old grad in Section 43 can see them, the game is changed so a forecaster hardly dares to speak...
...down to what you all are most interest in I myself, was born in Shemokin, Pa., just before the Panic of 1893 (this was pure coincidence), of poor but honest parents. (Father was poor and mother was honest). We were, in fact, so poor that for economic reasons there was nothing personal in it--my mother dropped me out of the window onto the concrete pavement. I was quite unharmed, however, and just as my mother was about to repeat the experiment from a window one flight higher our old Indian servant stopped her, Pont," pleaded the faithful...
...amounts. It has always been hard, almost impossible, for me to find anyone with the temerity to wager against the infallible Forecast, but by a clever bit of strategy last week--you may have read the Saturday CRIMSON--I allowed credence to be given to the rumor that the Shemokin Idol is no longer infallible. :I have been accused of breaking faith with my public by purposely miscalling Saturday's results in one or two important cases, but what is one's public when there are little Forecast mouths to be filled--some of my brother's children...