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...Kelly is a real find at right end and White is a tough customer to beat out on the left wing. He is officially in the class of 1936 for he was out of college for a year and ineligible for another. The reserves are not up to snuff. Nazro is a veteran but has not been delivering his wares satisfactorily this year. Kopaus and Francisco at the tackle posts seem to be working well, and Rogers is close on Francisco's heels. The guard prospects are the best in a long time with four men almost equally matched. Gulian...
...Snuff for Bryan...
...fully aware that the drinking of liquor of any alcoholic content whatsoever is not tolerated by the Institution. I hereby pledge myself to abstain totally from such indulgence in any degree, while a student in the University. ... I further pledge myself neither to smoke nor use tobacco or snuff in [the buildings] of the University; and should I indulge in the use of tobacco at all, I agree to confine myself to its use at the times and in the places designated. ... If a young woman, I pledge myself not to use tobacco in any form, while a student...
...seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...
Like other fashionable young ladies, Julia fancied her own tastes in literature, music and the arts; but. perhaps because of her scattered schooling, her spelling was not up to snuff. "Asparagrass . . . tasted diliciously"; to forward swains she could be "very fridged indeed''; of one Hooker Hammersly she states: "He is not the man for My Sister by a long short." She must have read even her favorite authors with half an eye: "I have just read Mrs Gasgells life of Charlotte Brontë, & enjoyed it immensely, almost as much as Jane Ayer." But she was often a shrewd...