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...brought out during registration was the fact that Miss Lillie Fortman, of Jersey City, New Jersey, has been attending summer school every year since 1914, that one girl's address is the Boston Navy Yard, that another has Freshman for a last name, and another is 67 years old. Tink Sik Tse lived the greatest distance from Cambridge, Canton, China. The sons of two ranking dignitaries in the Japanese army and navy, as well as the son and daughter of millionaires are enrolled along with students from the Phillipines, Costa Rica, Syria...
...extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery and into brawny thoraces; frost accumulates on silver buckets and shakers; glasses tink; bottles crash on skulls; one girl smokes cigars, nude; another refuses $100. After many sultry but incessantly swift, surprising events, involving a lot of good Mexican history and accurate swearing, Govett Bradier boards a tanker for the U. S., discouraged with the oil industry and possessed of the illuminating discoveries...
...after-dinner speech, the Millionaire Kid, dressed to his name, was reported as having said: "When a guy gets out of de jug, society don't give him a tumble.* Dey rubs de welcome off de mat. Dey tink he ought to be punished all his life. Why, dere was a guy come out of de jug only four days ago wit' ten dollars in his pocket. Nobody gives him a tumble, but he'd been tru' college and been to medical school. I asks him what he wants to do an' he says...