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Back in the days when the rubber truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven...
...rehearsal, the operetta opened in the office of Button, Burton, Bitten and Muchinfuss, where Philmore Updyke Muchinfuss ("known in the trade as old P.U.") was holding a staff conference. The advertising agency needed a sponsor...
...backers, the push-button world apparently held no terrors. Said a representative of International Business Machines (whose motto is "Think!"): "Why, it's a great era for the individual worker. Just think, instead of just taking dictation, a secretary can now serve her boss as accountant, paymaster, inventory expert, and Lord only knows what else...
...just lost a button off my coat. Have you a needle and thread...
Prepared for almost everything, Miss Burbank dutifully sewed on the button. She wants it known, however, that her powers are not unlimited, that she cannot conjure up hotel rooms, orchestra seats at the theater, etc. Lately, her card index file of New York City, which includes the subhead "Girls with Problems," has come to the attention of one of the world's older and one of its newer institutions. Good old Thomas Cook & Son, travel agents extraordinary, have examined it as a prelude to setting up a similar guide to London, and the United Nations has already adopted...