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First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...
...Bulow that she met Richard Wagner, himself married to an exactress, Minna Planer. Minna had shared Wagner's poverty, put up with his adulteries, including the Mathilde Wesendonck affair which supposedly inspired Tristan und Isolde. But Wagner left Minna to live with Cosima, 25 years his junior. She bore him three children-before he married her, took her to live at the Villa Wahnfried provided at Bayreuth by Mad King Ludwig who also loved...
...three wives, each of whom bore him two children. The first died; the second (beautiful, dashing, red-headed Genevieve Chandler) was divorced after a scandal. The present Mrs. Phipps, is the daughter of a onetime Mayor of Denver...
...attack upon the 1930 cotton crop. From ground cracks, from old cotton stalks, from patches of dead grass and weeds, the continental swarm of little quarter-inch beetles crawled out of hibernation to meet the warming sun, to twitch and test the long, sturdy snouts with which they will bore into billions of green cotton bolls this summer. Patient planters, breaking up their ground for the new crop, plowed legions of the pest back into the ground to destruction. But legions more crawled out prepared to multiply. Not plows nor prayers nor poison can halt Boll Weevil. His race goes...
...read in the newspaper that the automobile of his Democratic adversary, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, was being searched for by the police. That, thought Senator Oddie, was too bad. When he went to get his borrowed car to drive to work again, Senator Oddie noticed the car bore Missouri license plates. That, thought Senator Oddie, was most embarrassing. He sped to the telephone, confessed to Senator Hawes, returned his property...