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...local Elks or Rotary Club meeting, but here it is considered more important because they are all uncommitted or will be when their delegation is released from certain obligations, and they have the power to choose the next President of the United States (at political conventions, the candidate for such-and-such job is always referred to as so-and-so, the next such-and-such...
...selected opponent would not be told of the pass-fail designation, to ensure absolutely normal treatment of the G.U.T. less foe. The only change would be made by the sports registrar on the end-of-season won-lost record. The record would show that the team played such-and-such an opponent, but there would be no mention of the outcome...
...active in the bopping '40s as he had been in the swinging '30s, which would seem to lend weight to his theory that "there has been no evolution in jazz; it's the same old stuff interpreted and played differently. Laymen make a big deal about such-and-such a style, but it's all a matter of what a man is thinking...
...sportswriter working and traveling with a team, one meets alumni who are fanatically interested in athletics. One is told such things as, "Why don't you drop up and see So-and-So sometime? I got him in here on the assumption that he would go out for such-and-such a sport, but he hasn't. Maybe if you talked to him..." Why is a coach any worse than an alumnus with this attitude...
...pastime in which many people love to indulge is the argumentation that arises from the question, "If you were marooned alone on an island for a long time and could have only one such-and-such, which one would you choose?" Were I confronted with such a choice from the complete plays of Shakespeare, I should pick Macbeth to have on my shipwrecked island (the wit would of course state a preference for The Tempest...