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...Haste '34, G. S. Hayes '34, I. F. Hubbard '31, C. H. King '34, D. McC. Malthews '32, David Miller '34, A. W. Polk '34, Roger Potter '32, J. T. Quinby '34, A. B. Roed '31, Ellery Sedgewick '32, T. D. Spencer '34, John Swarts '34, L. L. Thurber '34. Atrens vonSchrader. Jr. '34, E. H. Woodberry...
Recently the executive committee of the University Instrumental Clubs appointed the following officers for the new organizations: president, Atreus von Schrader '34, of New York City; vice-president, Lloyd Brown '34, of Milton; secretary-treasurer, Guy Scull Hayes '34 of Andover; manager,. LeGrand Lock'-wood Thurber '34 of New York City...
With an air of being just as bewildered about life as you are, James Thurber gives advice on peculiar pets, grammatical teasers. He tells in a wide-eyed way how Mr. Monroe was an open book to Mrs. Monroe though he fancied himself cleverly written. One of the puzzling problems in the "Pet Department": "My police dog has taken to acting very strange, on account of my father coming home from work every night for the past two years and saying to him, 'If you're a police dog, where's your badge?' after which he laughs (my father...
...worried about split infinitives? If such a sentence as ''Our object is to further cement trade relations" gives you pause, hark to Mr. Thurber: "My own way out of all this confusion would be simply to say 'Our object is to let trade relations ride,' that is, give them up, let them go." Should you say, "I feel bad" or ''I feel badly"? Says Thurber: "As a general thing, if the illness or pain really exists, and is acute, it is better to use the shorter word 'bad,' because it is more easily said and will bring assistance quicker...
Funpokers James Thurber, Wolcott Gibbs, both young, both Manhattanites, both write for the Manhattan smartchart New Yorker...