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Butterworth, still acting captain in Joss' place, will oppose Captain Wilson in the line. The duel between these two great tackles should be well worth watching. Against Brown, the Pennsylvania leader played the part of monkey wrench in the Bear's offensive machine...
...players but one are in the best of condition and no injuries have resulted from any of the games. The single injured player is Robinson, substitute halfback, who received a severe wrench during an unusually heated scrimmage preceding the Vermont game. He has been carrying his arm in a sling since then and will not be ready for the Harvard game although it is expected that he will see service in the others...
...electricity, "knows less today," yet is now president of a large concern making electrical apparatus (Cutter Electric & Manufacturing Co.) by reason of a genius for not interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards a screwdriver with suspicion and a monkey-wrench with horror." Modest, he will permit no one to address him as "Doctor," though his abiding passion for English literature has caused three universities to confer upon him honorary degrees...
GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE?Chiefly Ina Claire. Her personal pyrotechnics more than suffice to disguise the fact that to divorce and remarry a husband in three acts is an imaginative wrench...
...taken place there, but it has done more harm than all the farmers and wage earners in the United States would ever create. The brains of the Republican Party have been spilled all over the West with the junior Senator of Iowa [Brookhart] throwing not only the monkey wrench but the whole machine shop into the machinery...