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...plaintiff, a graduate of Harvard College and a resident of New York, bought two tickets for the Yale game, in the section of the Harvard Stadium especially reserved for his class. Thinking later that he would be unable to use them; in reply to a request of his classmate Zilch, he said he would sell them both for $25.00, an increase of $15.00. Zilch informed the Harvard Athletic Association by telegram, as follows...
...SALTONCABOT '04 IS SELLING YALE TICKETS FOR TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.--P. ZILCH...
...Zilch. Lieut.-Commander Francis Monroe Hawks flew nonstop across the U. S. last week in 13½ hr., four hours faster than the previous nonstop record which he also held. Commander Hawks held the controls for a little less than one-third of the time-the first two hours out of Los Angeles, the last two hours before landing in Brooklyn. The rest of the time, the ship was guided by "Mr. Zilch," Commander Hawks's name for a robot pilot built by George De Besson, California engineer. Said Pilot Hawks: ''The only trouble...
...Freshman wits revealed themselves in a light vote cast for Wintergreen and members of the Zilch family...
People who contribute to newspaper columns are very free with their signatures. Some make free with great names, sign themselves "Napoleon," "George Washington," "Calvin Coolidge." Others make free to be funny and call themselves names like Oscar Zilch, Wilton F. Cassowary, Ivan Offalitch. Conductor Harry Irving Phillips of the "Sun Dial" in the New York Evening Sun, did not think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare...