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Owing to a burn on his arm which the Bishop received recently, he is still carrying the injured member in a sling and will be unable to engage in the golf and tennis matches which he had anticipated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MODERN MIND IS GREATEST FRAUD" SAYS DR. INGRAM | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

Some of the funniest scenes of the play center on Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Craigle, played by J. M. Gates '27, and C. T. F. B. lyon '27. This pair, as the henpecked husband and the nagging wife, sling some gags that will make your hair curl, and exude one song, "Life Is No Bed Roses" that, in the words of one of the Graduates' Night audience, is "sure fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Crew Captain and Author of "Deceit" Praises Pudding Show---Goofus, Colonial Saxophone, Intrigues | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

...Execution." Mr. David Lloyd George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger George: "The Geneva fiasco has created a bad impression abroad . . . led to a very unpleasant discussion in the U. S. Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamberlain Grilled | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...years Mrs. Ruth Pratt has been associate Republican leader of her District, the 15th. It is normally Republican. She ran against James A. O'Gorman Jr., son of the late Senator from New York. They did not sling any mud at each other. The Republican slogan was "Put Our Ruth Over." She lived in her house on 61st Street, just off Fifth Avenue, but she went all the way over to the little shops on Third Avenue canvassing for votes. Her son came down from Harvard to cast his first vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Alderwoman | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...players but one are in the best of condition and no injuries have resulted from any of the games. The single injured player is Robinson, substitute halfback, who received a severe wrench during an unusually heated scrimmage preceding the Vermont game. He has been carrying his arm in a sling since then and will not be ready for the Harvard game although it is expected that he will see service in the others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN TEAM HOPES TO KEEP GOAL UNCROSSED | 10/15/1925 | See Source »

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