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...Graphic's front pages were spread with the admittedly faked results, To ridicule Mr. Browning and stimulate convulsions corresponding to laughter in the biped organisms to which the Graphic panders, astounding imbecilities were shown issuing from the character's mouths. From Mr. Browning's: "Woof! Woof! Don't be a goof!" From Mrs. Browning's pet African honking goose: "Honk! Honk! It's the bonk!" The Graphic started a "Woof! Woof!" contest-$1 each for "just little nifties" about the Brownings. Specimen: "Woof! Woof! Daddy Browning, real estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic...
...warp and woof of New Bedford, Mass., textile city, scurried to the polls last week, pasted little stickers on many a ballot. On each sticker was the name of Charles Sumner Ashley, Democrat. When the ballots were counted it was found that "Sticker" Ashley had been elected Mayor by a majority of some 6,000 votes...
...Queen Marie's alleged philanderings in Bucharest than any other U. S. newspaper, was guilty of the following editorial gaucherie: "[On the Leviathan Queen Marie] will be surrounded by the deck chairs of her old pals, most of whom have beards, and start their sentences with 'Woof.' Nobody not of the court will be allowed to set foot within a ship's length of the queen...
...depicts events running fatefully toward an inevitable human cataclysm. While Montemezzi's score is not necessarily set to one particular melodious theme, nevertheless there is a succession of musical phrases that clothe the words and the thought behind them, their significance, their most subtle suggestion, in the weft and woof of expressive music...
...first Dartmouth was probably given a date without any thought of its strength in relation to its proper place in the web and woof of the season. After several bad beatings it was relegated in 1891 to the humble position of season-opener. Then seemingly invigorated by its draught of bitterness, as other colleges have been likewise, Dartmouth began to give the University so much work that in 1899 it leaped up to a position next to the final Yale game and there remained until 1912. Some may perhaps thank that the prerequisite for such a position...