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With his vigorous news pages, Dana ran blistering editorials against Boss Tweed, the Crédit Mobilier and the Whisky Ring. Yet the Sun also sentimentally assured eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
...candidates for Overseers are: Harrison Tweed '07, New York, Law; Roger Adams '09, Chicago, Chemistry; Frederick Lewis Allen '12, New York, publishing; Raymond S. Wilkins '12, Boston, Judiciary; John E. Slater '13, New York, Shipping; Christian A. Herter '15, Boston, Government; and John S. Fleek '15, Cleveland, Finance...
...expose" is also well represented. The London Spy goes into a lunatic asylum in 1699, and a New York Evening Post reporter reveals shameful prises conditions in 1917; the New York Times does a job a Boss Tweed in 1871, the Washington Post attacks the Colombians in 1946. There is human interest here, too, and sports, and animal stories--all the departments of the newspaper have their representatives...
...December, had to get along with a secondhand sack suit as his first grownup outfit. Emperor Hirohito agreed that his son should have a man's suit, but it seemed uneconomical to buy a new one. So the Emperor ordered his old dark brown, big-checked tweed taken out of mothballs and altered to fit the young prince...
...glamour. A howling wind whistled around her grandparents' home, gloomy old Castle Glamis (rhymes with palms), where Shakespeare's Macbeth had long since murdered sleep and Duncan. Lightning flashed and the rain beat down. The announcement of the first royal child to be born north of the Tweed since 1601 was greeted by an ear-splitting squeal of bagpipes...