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...gods, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' of all songs! Well, of course, I didn't know the words. I asked Bill Tilden to give me the words to the song and he went as far as 'Oh, say, can you see?' Then he 'ta-da-daed' the rest. What a scholar he is! Finally I had to have the words looked up in a library...
...Frequently, when an oil well seems exhausted, oil men enliven it by exploding a charge of nitroglycerin in its depths. tA subsidiary of the Mellon family's Gulf Oil Co. William Larimer Mellon is president of Gulf Oil, chairman of Gypsy...
...with little saddles on them-'bicycles' they were called-and went 'scorching' along past the phaetons and runabouts and sulkies and dogcarts and victorias to the mingled amusement and admiration of the people who confined their sporting activities to parchesi, crokinole, the schottische and 'Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown...
...Yeah, we got a letter from the Princetonian," he said, "but we haven't got any cigars yet. You're from Harvard ain't ya? Well I don't wancha to go and publish any slam at Princeton. We're going ta get the cigars all right, six boxes of 'em, Corona Belvederes. Here, read the letter." He handed the communication to the reporter...
...Dalai Lama, his regent and five assistant ministers, who govern Tibet as a theocracy, at the capital, Po-Ta-La, near Lhasa...