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...Sourdough Editors...
...sourdough" is an old-stager who knows enough to use yeast in making his bread and not to live on bread stirred up impromptu...
...humans?an Alaskan "sourdough"* called Waskey and Earl Rossman, a U. S. newspaper reporter?would be occupied with a slim skein of wires, a box and two silvery bulbs that occasionally glowed a chilly yellow against the trampled snow. In his head phones, Waskey could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber...
...after arriving in Fairbanks, the President and the chief members of his party spoke in the baseball park at Fairbanks. The temperature was 94° in the shade, and there were three cases of heat prostration in the audience. Mr. Harding declared that he felt himself to be a real sourdough, because he was the first President to visit Alaska. A part of the ceremonies was the presentation of a moose-hide collar, ornamented with gold nuggets and ivory, for Laddie Boy, Presidential hound...
MERTON OP THE MOVIES-Glenn Hunter and Florence Nash, tenderfoot and a sourdough of Hollywood, soften many a dour face with a satire on "the art of motion pictures...