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...quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal eyebrow. 'What of it?' he asked, and in Chicago two young Jewish psychopathics drew up to the curb in a Dodge, looking for someone to give a ride to. That night the Alabama delegation in the steaming reaches of Madison Square Garden threw twenty-five dogged votes...

Author: By J. H. S. ., | Title: THE EARLY WORM. By Robert Benchley '12. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

This unusual phenomon was later explained by the Yard cops whose home office swells the basement of Grays. With the aid of the Tutors in History and Liturature and the Cercle Francais they discovered the animals in the apartments of J. O. Whedon '27, President, and De Witt Endicott '28, prominent member of the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guinea Hens Join Yard Cops, Cercle, and Tutors in Grays Basement--Lampoon Heads Silent on Rumored Banquet | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

HIAWATTA: Witt No Odder Poems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME NOTABLE FALL BOOKS | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...Cleveland councilmen beamed. They had learned (unofficially through the Cleveland Press) that the Equitable Trust Co. of Manhattan with the concurrence of the Rockefellers might ask them for a franchise to build a $40,000,000 subway which eventually will go to the municipality free of cost. One Peter Witt, obstructionist, thinks the private enterprise "perfectly silly," insists the city should build the urgently needed tubes itself, after a plan which he first suggested three years ago but which has remained ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Urban Transportation | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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