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...qualities of human nature. When the football player sees his college gather in a million dollars in one year in gate receipts and considers how hard he has been worked to achieve that result, he is strongly inclined to feel that he is entitled to some of the swag. To sure, this money is supposed to be used to maintain the general athletic programme; but for the football players athletics means reporting for duty in August, and working hard till after Thanksgiving, only to resume practice early in the spring. He has begun his football in the secondary school (sometimes...
James E. O'Neil, once head of Prairie Oil & Gas Co., died last year at Cannes, France, whither he had fled in 1924 to escape telling the Senate and the courts about Continental Trading Co. Ltd., the corporate dummy through which the $3,080,000 Mexia Field swag was collected, $230,500 of which went to Fall...
...will no longer call prison "stir," nor $1,000 "a grand" or use any of the rest of the argot of the underworld we now know. Rather we may expect "Chappie" to replace "Cul" as a title of address and "loot" to take the place of "swag." All of which will be quite a bit pleasanter to the car, we admit, but quite outre. New Haven Register...
...about the elected representatives of the people, the Chicago politicians, the Judiciary, the Police, the Newspaper Community of Chicago who sold out the people to the underworld of Chicago for a share of the swag...
...remembered seeing the sacred fence being lowered to the street. On a stool in the studio was found page 26 of the Nov. 1 issue of Life, pinned down with a meat knife. The page contained a sketch showing a burglar, while his colleague comes down their ladder with swag, whispering to a policeman: "Shhh. We want this to be a surprise...