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...tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which explained Brother Tom's role in the world: "After scanning the honor roll of the obedient, the eyes of God rested on the name of C. Thomas Patten . . . Thus was born God's businessman of the hour . . . Business adventures for God are still taking form and this...
...days in the Roosevelt campaign, Curley led a pace that that would have buried two men; he covered 23 states and made 141 speeches. For all this, Roosevelt promised him a cabinet position--probably Secretary of the Navy. However, when the tome came for the appointments Roosevelt changed his mind, offering Curley the ambassadorship to Rome in place of the cabinet job. Once more, Curley accepted but Roosevelt backed down; finally, the President asked Curley if he would accept the position of ambassador to Poland. Apparently,, Roosevelt was not going to make the mistake Curley had made as governor...
...blooded Flood family of Bristol and how they made their 18th Century fortunes slave-trading on the sultry Gold Coast. Twilight takes over where Sun set, and sweeps the swelling Floods up to the brink of the 20th Century - leaving no doubt that at least one more huge tome is going to have to be purred over by Author Steen before the moonlight dissolves...
...cents. The quality of the paper seems amazingly good, both the type and margins are accommodating to the eye, and since the books are bound in soft paper, the reader is given a sense of intimacy and control which is hardly possible with a stiff-backed and weighty tome...
With this tome under his arm, Nelson found a coaching job at Hillsdale College before the start of the '46 season. As athletic director and head football coach of the 800-man school, he lost only one game in his two-year stay--the second game of his opening season. From then until November of '47 two ties were the only marks on an otherwise perfect record...