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Without blanching, last week Philadelphia's weekly meeting of Methodist clergymen heard Rev. Dr. Samuel Walter Grafflin, 66, a colleague from White Plains, N. Y., declare: ''The Church is spending too much effort reaching the nice little boys instead of the hell-raisers. And while I'm at it, let me say something in favor of that grand old word, hell. I'd like to know the bo who first called that word profane. The ministry could do nothing better than legitimatize it. Hell is the only word...
...Texas league when in a series of exciting intersectional games Rice whipped Purdue, Texas nosed out Notre Dame, Southern Methodist ran through Fordham, Texas Christian beat Santa Clara. The football centre of the country seemed to have moved south. It had done so because the Texans had developed a hell-for-leather style of play which employed plenty of passes of all kinds, sweeps and power plays, lots of deception. Emerging into the national sportlight like a whole league of Centre Colleges, the Southwest Conference this year produced not one but a pair of teams of championship stripe. Among...
Violating a five-year-old undergraduate "peace treaty," Louisiana State students raided Tulane's campus on the eve of the Deep South's big game, stuck their colors on the flagpole, smeared TO HELL WITH TULANE all over walks and buildings, predicted L. S. U. 40; Tulane 0. The Louisiana Staters were not quite extravagant enough. Final score: L. S. U. 41, Tulane...
...Where the hell's the scotch, you moll!" he said, seizing the Radcliffe girl by the hair and dragging her from the sofa, upsetting three or four cozy couples in so doing...
Died. John Rushworth ("Hell Fire Jack") Jellicoe,first Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, 75, Britain's Wartime Commander of the Grand Fleet, "Hero of Jutland"; of a chill caught at Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled...