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...Washington's birthday 4,000 spectators lined up in ankle-deep slush along the river. Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...
Energetic Winthrop House Dance Committeemen organized a shovel brigade yesterday to combat the rising tide of water and slush and clear a parking space for the Friday evening dance...
...Opponents," he gravely warned, "will make this the bitterest and certainly the dirtiest political struggle that any of us here can remember. The assault will be financed with the largest slush fund on record, contributed for the most part by those who have neither public conscience nor private scruple, who are only interested in getting back inordinate privileges." Chairman Farley braced himself for Republican "perversion of the facts," "outright lies." "foul whisperings." "We must work." continued Boss Farley, "for a victory so overwhelming as to make it plain forever that democracy is the faith of our people and that loyalty...
...Shed tears by the gallons and slush...
...this "made inevitable his election to the Hasty Pudding Club, the college dramatic society that was the goal of all undergraduate Thespians." This sort of slush continues throughout the volume but after a hundred pages the reader starts on the account of his work as liberal politician and prison administrator...