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Last year, Brown was the only team to beat the Harvard freshmen; three members of that Bruin team start today. Bill Arnold, six foot four inches, starts at center, but Ed Tooley, two inches shorter, is the team's strongest rebounder. Chuck Asselin, the other starter, is a good floor man and set shot...
...Holmes's "Our nation stands dis graced before the world" reminds me of "the nine tailors of Tooley Street." He covers too much territory, and his own language is too atomic. A few more nouns like atrocity, outrage, perpetrator, crime, and adjectives such as hideous, disgraced, monstrous dropped from Dr. Holmes's lingual superbomber, would make us all want to crawl into holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate...
...Tailors of Tooley Street!" Of course "Empire Free Trade" is a deliberately misleading name. Major feature of the scheme is to erect a tariff wall around the Empire. (Only incidentally is trade to be free within the Empire.) Last week embittered Chancellor Philip Snowden, a Socialist who is opposed to any tariff wall, sneered at the bankers' manifesto: "Who are these financiers? I've never so much as heard of four of them! Nothing so impudent as professing to represent financial opinion has been forthcoming since the notorious manifesto of the tailors of Tooley Street...
...Three tailors of Tooley Street, London, once addressed to the House of Commons a petition of grievances beginning-"We, the people of England...
...mile college relay championship of America--Won by Bates College (Chesley, Wardwell, Adams and Wakeley); second Harvard (O'Neil, Cummings, Peet and Porter); third, Ohio State University (Hall, Hays, Tooley and Loomis); fourth, Boston College (Mulcahy, Rogers, McLaughlin and Daley). Time...