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...certainly in the belly because there are five references to Gentleman Jo's custom of shooting only at the belly. Gentleman Jo, is not the Jeffrey Farnol or the Alfred Noyes sort of highwayman, as the bar maid had hoped, because but read the story for yourself. I might spoil it for you, hard Dixon should be read twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE TERMED GOOD, BUT NOT DISTINGUISHED | 12/12/1925 | See Source »

...Come what will,' he said, "I will not lift my singer to help them. But," he added, "I've got nothing against Major Moore and Mr. Getchell, so I won't spoil the crowd for them by telling your CRIMSON readers how the game is coming out." Despite the pleas of the editors, he was adamant, so this, the first of his offerings is without any slant on the Harvard-Rensselaer game. The other games are,, Joe leclares, sure to result as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRODUCING JOE FORECAST '26 | 10/3/1925 | See Source »

...Downing St., back from a weekend at his country place in Kent. He had not been there long when an acquaintance from across the Channel arrived to keep an engagement. Mr. Churchill was in good humor. Apparently he had not let the impending visit of his acquaintance spoil his weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mais Certainement^ | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...been across those windows since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. They were placed there when the Roosevelts made a nursery of the room and for the sole purpose of keeping the energetic young Roosevelt boys from precipitating themselves to their death on the concrete pavement below. I hated to spoil a good story, but what else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scandal Quenched | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...advised the Board to place negotiations for the sale of ships to private parties in the hands of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and keep its hands off except for a final O. K. or veto. His reason was that too many cooks spoil the broth. The Board was expected to agree-unwillingly-to this curtailment of its functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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