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When the howling band had emerged from the Stadium with the goal post they careened down the river bank, where by an unhappy mischance, it fell into the torrent. Loud was the wailing at the sad event; equally great was the pleasure of the assembled multitudes when one of the members of the throng stepped forward, pulled up his pants to his knees, and ran into the water to his waist. Seizing the floating trophy, he was about to remount the bank, when he was seized with the happy idea that it was now his, and his alone...
...began by cursing, ending by asserting: "You ought to be kicked." Backwoods man Doughton, 71 but spare and sinewy, invited: "Why don't you do it then?" Republican Blalock swung a chunky fist at his enemy's leathery, buzzardish face. Down upon his head Democrat Doughton rained such a torrent of blows that Ceph Blalock struggled only to break away. Soon Ceph Blalock was sprinting down the street and Farmer Bob was bellowing: "Come back and let's finish this thing...
...appreciated. The late great Henry James, her idol, became her friend. Jamesians will enjoy the many anecdotes she tells (too lengthy for quotation) of the Master's circuitous crotchets. She met "everybody," seems to have liked them all except George Moore, whose malicious conversation she describes as "a torrent of venom. It was the tone of The Dunclad without its wit." Though France is Edith Wharton's second home (she has lived there since 1907), most of her 42 books have been concerned with the U. S. scene. She does not admit which literary child is her favorite...
...best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real War, the successor of the late great Lieut. Colonel Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System and the Expanding Torrent Method of Attack. He too agreed that another war is not unlikely, but insisted, contrary to general opinion, that it will be a very tame slaughter compared to the last one. His reasons: "Europe's general staffs still believe in the effectiveness of mass movements and think the larger...
...coaches in addition to Kipke who might be hired by Yale. To the Associated Press, Michigan's assistant Athletic Director Franklin C. Cappon denied that he planned to transfer to Yale. In Iowa City Coach Ossie Solem of Iowa denied the same thing. New Haven belched forth a torrent of contradictory rumors: Yale's one-time Coach T. A. D. ("Tad") Jones might be re-engaged; the members of the secret committee would ask for the resignation of Athletic Director Farmer unless he hired Coach Kipke; Footballer Clare Curtiri, 1934 Yale captain, was conferring with President Angell about...