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...humble Japanese mountaineer one chill evening long ago was sitting close to his stove when there came a knock on the worn brown door of his hut. Opening, he beheld standing before him his Emperor, the Son of Heaven, shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over...
...that moment an impressive knock informed the interviewer that further discussion was impossible, so he betook himself to the wings where he happily just avoided bumping into Miss Laverne Barker, the form Divine. Miss Barker, it seemed was from Kentucky, and the glorious South, pleasant shooting and what not served for a few minutes of pleasant conversation...
Opportunity's first knock was delivered by none other than that distinguished alumnus of the University of Maine and Yale, Rudy Vallee. His magnanimous offer was to raise "Fair Harvard" to the basis of the Stein Song. Thus popularized the anthem could be crooned through the anthem could be crooned through the medium of the microphone and loudspeaker straight into the hearts of his adoring public. However the department foolishly overlooked this chance of placing Harvard's name before millions to whom it would otherwise have registered blank except perhaps for a mental picture of a well-known five cent...
...Knock number one opened up vistas no less vast than Rudy's microphone for putting Harvard in the public eye. From purely altruistic motives a young man came out of the west and offered to brandish the baton for the University band. His name is Charles "Buddy" Rogers and his charming presence has endeared him in the hearts of movie fans the country over...
...York, Herbert Hoover saw a Negro knock another Negro down. Going to help the stricken party, Herbert Hoover was arrested with the two belligerents, taken to gaol. Negro Hoover was exonerated, freed...