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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems there were there, goldfish, named, curiously enough, One, Two, and Three, and there was also a silk handkerchief. The goldfish pass gaily down the esophagus of Mr. All, and at the word of command reappear, apparently quite delighted with their journey. The regurgitation of the silk handkerchief seems to prove that the goldfish are involuntary and not conniving actors...
Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania last week came forward with definite proposals for ending the anthracite coal strike. He invited the miners and operators to meet him at Harrisburg. The miners went, but the operators sent word that they could not get their committee together on such brief notice. So the operators did not attend...
Since then he has lived very quietly. Neither on his own account nor on that of his father was he ever willing to go into the limelight. Occasionally he has put in a word when he thought his father's reputation was being misstated in print or his figure was being malformed in sculpture, but he never entered into controversy. His last public appearance was at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding. Even then he declined to be a guest of honor. So whether he is at his summer home at Manchester...
...other words," said Sir Arbuthnot Lane, "constipation. I find it hard to get that word into the newspapers ... so that the public will know what I am talking about. I was asked recently to give a ten-minute talk on this subject over the radio. I did. The radio people wouldn't allow me to say constipation...
From New Haven comes word that "the Yale News is in complete sympathy with the CRIMSON'S idea." The Princetonian likewise echoes the CRIMSON with an editorial statement that "the sideshow is seriously threatening to swallow the big show." And the Dartmouth undergraduate paper writes: "We agree with the Harvard CRIMSON. . . Intercollegiate football is a menace in its present form, and steps should be taken to restore it to its properly subordinate position." And the days continue to dawn without any shooting...