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Three years ago last week, in slickers and galoshes, under umbrellas and sodden newspapers, thousands of U. S. citizens stood on the great plaza before the Capitol, saw skullcapped Charles Evans Hughes swear in bareheaded Franklin Delano Roosevelt to uphold and defend the Constitution...
...promised to swear off: 1) recruiting of prep and high-school athletes (sometimes carried on in California with brass bands); 2) athletic scholarships; 3) phantom or sinecure campus jobs; 4) alumni or student organization handouts; 5) scalping of football tickets by squadsmen; 6) other "bad practices." To administer these bans, the Conference engaged wordy Mr. Atherton for three more years as its "commissioner," a post promptly dubbed "Tsar of West Coast Football...
...legally signed To erect in Copley Square my statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! No statue now graces Copley Square. 'Tis enough to make even an angel swear, But being only human I refuse to despair. And I hope that means will be found somewhere So after the lapse of many a year Due honor be paid to Paul Revere...
When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze a clever device to keep their enemies from licking the pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going...
...cousin, Urano Tiso, Slovak Minister to a regime which the Holy See not only refuses to recognize but considers the personification of antichrist. To complicate matters still further, Priest Tiso as an ecclesiastic is responsible to his Bishop, but the Bishop under the Slovak Constitution has to swear allegiance to President Tiso...