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...When I came here 42 years ago, things were different. The first Monday of the year was 'Bloody Monday'. The upper classmen went after the Freshmen, tore their clothes, kicked their hats around, and spread the pieces in the Square. Then I can remember a bon-fire in the Yard made from a collection of gates which had been removed from neighborhood hinges...
...information which Mr. Knopf sells is done up in a book form and is called The Bon Viant's Companion, or How to Mix Drinks. It is the work of the late Professor Jerry Thomas, onetime bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel, Manhattan, and the Planters' House, St. Louis. Professor Thomas (whose parents wanted him to be a preacher) first published How to Mix Drinks in 1862. It quickly went through six large printings; Professor Thomas became a world-figure; it was said that President Grant, having quaffed the Professor's BLUE BLAZER after playing croquet, gave him a cigar...
Copley at 8.20 "The Bellamy Trall". Bellamy and Bon Ami, you know. You can wash windows with Bon Ami, but they tell us this is a play...
...intend that my letter should be taken, as a joke, for though none would be quicker to appreciate a bon mot than myself. I cannot in all truth my that I see anything funny about forgery. In this stand I am substantiated by several banks and penal institutions...
Founder Barnes has preserved the col egiate informality of his early meetings. At bon mots the Evening Club audiences laugh as they dare not in formal church. Points well-given and taken are applauded not by silent acquiescent nods but by vigorous beating of palm on palm. When the meeting closes, people go out on Michigan Avenue. Some look up at the Chevrolet sign that gives the time every 60 seconds, and set their watches with nobler intentions...