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Patient butt of many an ignominy has been Princeton's famed statue "The Christian Student" Given by the late Philanthropist-Alumnus Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, it represents in seraphic terms the athlete, by means of its football attire; the student, by books and an academic robe slung over the shoulder; the Christian, by a noble, slightly disapproving expression...
Ford-3-engined 10-12 seater cabin monoplane; high wing, all metal like the rest of the plane in corrugated sheet; fuselage low slung, heavy; rudder high, wide sweeping; three radial engines, one in nose and two suspended under the wing on either side; pilot's cockpit in advance of leading edge; wide wheel base; steerable wheel on tail skid...
Murray and Budd a goodly number.) In general, the new models taper from rear to front. That gives roomy back seats. By widening rear axles, manufacturers have obviated the unsightly overhung bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...
...office, last week, by Nelson Schwab, a son of the late Dr. Louis Schwab, Cincinnati Mayor in the gang-ridden days of the late Boss Rud K. Hynicka. All but one of the Taft ticketmates were beaten, too. People said it was because the Citizens' Republican Committee "slung mud," i.e., preached reform so militantly that its foes became goodfellow martyrs...
Machiavelli has become little more than an adjective signifying ruthless scheming duplicity. The present biography makes it quite clear that a man is behind the adjective, a true Florentine who slung mud and cobble stones in street-fights along the Arno, swapped bawdy yarns over a noggin of wine, curried favor with whatever political power there happened...