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...slang of a new synonym for a cunning falsehood. For on every man-of-war and at every shore station today, officers and men know that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a falsehood with such cunning as to stand a good chance of not being caught. Boston Transcript...
...present. Professor Herbert Eugene Bolton of the University of California, who comes to trace, for the benefit of Lowell Institute audiences, the expansion of the Spanish empire in America, is an authority in a branch of American history which perhaps has not received the attention which it merits. Boston Transcript...
...first is that the East does not have any particular advantage over the West or the South as regards interest in Harvard. The Massachusetts and New York percentages--32 and 31--are high, but so are those of Illinois (81), Wisconsin and Arkansas (35) and Missouri (32). Boston Transcript...
...great majority of the American people does not count among the lairds of the glass, who hold fast to the old gospel of the Scotch lady, remonstrated with for her evident condition, who proclaimed: "Better have a wee drappie too much than waste the Lord's mercies." -Boston Transcript...
...course, regardless of the effect upon his own fortunes. He has enjoyed the confidence of the devotees of the game, and he has heightened that confidence by his course in this emergency. His action will tend to restore public confidence in the essential honesty of baseball. Courtesy of Boston Transcript...