Word: ho
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Professor Chester Noyes Greenough '98, master of Dunster House, tells how ho was aroused from his study one night this fall by a ring at the doorbell to find a workman at the door with his small daughter. The man explained to Professor Greenough that ho had helped in the stoel construction of the House and wondered if he might show his daughter how it looked inside when all completed...
...Ho Ho! Ha Ha Ha! Mr. Hughes will have a good laugh on this now and Mr. Lewis will get a fine kick out of it, as inspired prophet of coming events. About Mr. Hughes' literary tastes he says: "For the past twenty-four years Mr. Hughes has cultivated Dumas, and knows more about Athos, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Aramis than did the mothers who bore them...
Author Linderman shows Plenty-coups as a kindly, dignified, brave and wise old man. Not all his story was simple; when Linderman had difficulty in following the complications of the ancient tobacco-seed ceremony, Plenty-coups repeated the explanation twice, then said: "Ho! There is Something here! Something that does not wish you to understand. Do not try, Sign-Talker. Let it alone...
Decorated. Edward Nash Hurley, 65, Chicago financier, Commander of the Legion of'Honor, order of Ta Sho Cha Ho (China), Grand Officer Crown of Italy, by the Vatican; with the order of Knight...
...convert had a hard row to hoe. He tried to found a Catholic university in Dublin, and was thwarted; was promised a bishopric, which never came; was asked to make a translation of the Bible, and the plans fell through. But when Charles Kingsley, famed author of Westward Ho!, attacked him, calling him Jesuitical, Newman's series of replies (the Apologia pro vita sua) not only demolished Kingsley but reestablished Newman's reputation as the most important religious figure in England. He wrote the Apologia in seven weeks, sometimes working for 22 hours at a stretch. Says Biographer...