Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitching experience on last year's championship university baseball team. He is enamoured of one. Mary West, coy maid of the great open spaces, whose charms are subtly interpreted by Howard Whitmore '29, star not only of the stage but also of last year's Freshman team pitching staff...
...with the Bourne. Fuller Company of Cleveland, in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. At the outbreak of the War, he went to Washington, first as secretary of the General Munitions Board, later of the War Industries Board, and subsequently as a member of the General Staff in Washington, and as Assistant Chief of Staff. In 1923, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate where he has served two consecutive terms. He was recently elected to a third, and during the coming session of 1927 will serve as Floor Leader. Since the War, he has been...
...whole episode gave newsreaders this thought: why might anti-feminist Miss Butler not find in Mrs. Reporter Adams an excellent example of the kind of unsex-conscious industry she would like to see women exhibit in politics? Scarcely any metropolitan newspaper today is without women on its staff; not only as editrixes of sob columns, advice to the socially incompetent, fashion pages and society notes, but also as literary and dramatic critics, cartoonists, humorists and "straight" news reporters like Mrs. Reporter Adams. These daughters of journalism ask no favors and receive none because they happen to wear skirts instead...
...minutes she talked in French through an interpreter to President Calles. Then the President's Chief of Staff, General Jose Alvarez, offered the Ministress his arm, escorted her forth...
...What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. . . . The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more sprightly than oafish malice. . . . It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing...