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Working (boxers, collies, German shepherds, great Danes, etc.). Judge of working dogs was the Hon. Townsend Scudder whose Greenwich, Conn, neighbors have gone to law because his 70 spaniels yap so loud. He picked a sable & white Chicago collie, Ch. Hertzville Headstone, undefeated in 19 shows...
...siege went on hour after hour, the baffled crowd began to yap and howl like hounds at a treed possum. Tear gas fumes were whiffed away by a sharp breeze. Hurled torches fell short of their mark. Then, early in the sixth hour, a State trooper took off his shirt, soaked it in gasoline, inched up to an outbuilding, lighted the shirt, tossed it into the shed. Up it blazed and the breeze swept the flames across to the house. The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar...
...flattery to a savage Empire was the opening move in long years of attempted peaceful, economic penetration of Ethiopia. Felicity touched its high when the present Emperor Haile Selassie visited King Vittorio Emanuele III in Rome and was showered with lavish gifts, including some small dogs which still yap at Addis Ababa. Forgotten today is the French reason for having initiated Ethiopia's blossoming into "nationhood" by joining the League: France thought Britain intended to seize Ethiopia and hoped by this means to block the seizure...
Edward S. Amazeen '31 will coach the Lowell House team for the second year, Harold T. K. Yap 2L will have charge of Eliot House, while Kirkland will be under the leadership of Bernard Fox 6G. Other coaches as announced by Samborski are Warren Sturgis 3L, William Powers, James A. Potter '34, Warren Casey '34, and William F. Brooks 3L. Powers is a former Dartmouth varsity football player, while Casey was Harvard's regular center last fall...
...portion of the people are damn sick of these Clean Cut Young Men, as Nemo declares in your issue of February 13, another portion of the people, I venture to suggest, are also damn sick and tired of the Jittery Juveniles who so insistently yap their disbelief in the honesty of those who, as a matter of good taste if nothing more, actually prefer cleanliness, decency, and integrity to their opposites...