Word: happener
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...Frankly, I don't know," said Coach Horween, when asked for a tentative eleven that might take the field against the Blue. "There have been so many upsets lately that it is impossible to say what may happen tomorrow...
...great success, may have noticed that the Ibis tree, so recently brought to America from the Netherplaces by Robert Lampoon, Esquire has, within the last few days, been sawed in twain by some George Washington who needs to be debunked. Nor is the CRIMSON happy to see this happen...
...Orleans in 1830-Creole days when gentlemen worthy of the name kept two establishments, one for the white women lawfully theirs, another for quadroons who found their favor. One M. Brusard, proudest of all Creoles, is betrayed by his mistress, seeks another, finds Mugette, lovely, desirable, almost white. Strangers happen by Kentuckians, staggering drunk but thirsty still for liquor and for women like their own to be their slaves. Pistol shots; and one intruder is dead, the other enamored of Mugette. A voodoo scene, and Mugette begs a charm to win her lover, follows her most savage instincts until, despairingly...
...loped about Europe with a bundle of banknotes in his hand. In certain capitals he stopped to search out a professor eminent for cancer researches and to invite the personage to a first International Symposium on Cancer Control to be held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. If, as did happen, the man he wanted hesitated over the expenses of a trans-atlantic voyage, Dr. Soper (he is a doctor of philosophy) was prepared to press expense money upon him, a bit of the $10,000 which John D. Rockefeller had donated last spring for just such contingencies...
...return for all this, you must renounce theatres, dances, and bildge. You must content yourself with some less studying and some less sleeping. In fact, you will hardly dare to go to sleep for fear something will happen before you wake up and one of your fellow competitors will beat you to it. And for what are you competing? You are competing for the opportunity to give up still other theatres, dances, and bridge, while you go on in the effort to be assistant managing editor, managing editor, and president. You are competing for the opportunity to give up still...