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...parson heard and made Benoni sign a public retraction. Deputized by the lazy sheriff to read public announcements after church, Benoni omitted the retraction. Of course this was found out and the lion-marked post bag, symbol of Benoni's distinction among his fellow fishermen, was taken from...
...with the Fosdick ascendency. He was a Baptist ? and the Baptist Church contains no ecclesiastical ladder. The simple facts are that from 1904 to 1915, Fosdick remained in Montclair. He began to give a few lectures at Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, and finally removed, in 1915, bag and baggage to the Seminary to become Professor of Practical Theology...
...great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...bag-shirted "guineas...
...hunting privileges "widely demanded in the interest of the preservation of game." He argued that most of the income of the Game Protective Association comes from arms and munitions manufacturers, who had influenced Mr. Burnham, head of an advisory committee to the Government, to object to reduction of the bag limit and the length of the open season. He declared that he (Hornaday) and other members of the advisory committee were but "distinguished rubber stamps," while Burnham maneuvered the Department of Agriculture as he saw fit. "I regard Mr. Burnham's influence over Dr. E. W. Nelson and other...