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...March, 1913) U S Senator, "Tennessee's Most Beloved Citizen"; at Bell Buckle, Tenn.; of bronchitis and senility To his students (who included Norman H. Davis, able diplomat) he said each day: "Boys, don't do things on the sly." The origin of his pupil-invented sobriquet "Old Sawney" is uncertain...
...Bucky" is the standard sobriquet for a star fullback; other good names for a back are "Red," "Champ," "Charlie." With all four of these gentlemen, listed as Dahlman, Hearndon, Chevigney, and Riley, in the field, Notre Dame's able team pounded past Penn State, 28 to 0. Wilson and Harding made a cabinet of their own in the Army backfield and kept tossing the portfolio back and forth until, with the support of the best line in the East, they beat their heavy Syracuse visitors...
Died. Dr. William Jewett Tucker, 87, President Emeritus of Dartmouth College; at Hanover, N. H., of heart disease. He received his sobriquet of "the great president" by bringing Dartmouth from the little "eleemosynary institution"- of John Marshall's day to the great college that it had become when Dr. Tucker resigned in 1909. Died. Thor, 2, able retriever of golfer's dub-shots; at Briarcliff Lodge golf course, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. Dog Thor was struck by an automobile when retrieving a ball-nevertheless brought it back to the golfer, wagged his tail, died...
...Peary wrote of him: "Harrigan acquired this sobriquet on account of his ear for music. The crew used to be fond of singing that energetic Irish air which was popular for some years along Broadway and which concludes ungrammatically with the words 'Harrigan-that...
Michigan. The scale on which things are done in Detroit is becoming legendary. First there was Ford's output; then an 81-story skyscraper; and now the revelations of vice conducted there in the grandest possible manner. Rockefeller Foundation investigators gave Detroit its latest sobriquet, "vilest city in the country," and last week Mayor John W. Smith set about finding out if such distinction was deserved. The Rockefeller men had reported 711 disorderly houses within a mile of Mayor Smith's office and no one was astonished when Mayor Smith's police commissioner, Frank H. Croul, resigned...