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...just as regularly as they do their daily good turns. So I won't tell. I will only say that the Forecast shekels are being staked on said outcome in breath-taking amounts. It has always been hard, almost impossible, for me to find anyone with the temerity to wager against the infallible Forecast, but by a clever bit of strategy last week--you may have read the Saturday CRIMSON--I allowed credence to be given to the rumor that the Shemokin Idol is no longer infallible. :I have been accused of breaking faith with my public by purposely miscalling...
Last year Mr. Forecast was engaged by the CRIMSON in the capacity of official football prognosticator. His judgments were practically infallible throughout the season, but his greatest coup was not achieved until the last two games of the schedule when he offered to wager his shirt that the University would defeat Brown (Ed. note: Harvard 3, Brown 0), and that Yale would find it impossible to down the Crimson eleven (Ed. note: Harvard 0, Yale...
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...Attorney-General Dan Moody won the Democratic primary with well over 50% of the votes cast, thus precluding a "run-off" primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound to resign her executive position immediately. The lone-star state, state of the Alamo, of San Jacinto, of hard boiled sandslappers† and silken-tongued two-gun men, will now be governed by a onetime Sunday School teacher...
...spite of this overwhelming setback, one cannot but have faith in the smoke-wreathed banners of nicotine. Even now, if some chic, Parisian expert were to devise a feminine form of pipe to replace the grandmotherly corncob, one might safely wager that it would find universal favor with the gentler sex. And a charming smoking jacket should clinch the victory. If pioneer wives were willing to smoke corncobs an the chimney, surely their descend-ants can not be averse to a more civilized form of fumigation. Since the cigarette unsupported is achieving womanly progress, one can expect an artistic pipe...