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...Associate With a Mucker...
Sometimes Roosevelt's fighting was impromptu. Frederic Almy, his class secretary, recalls that during a torchlight procession in the Hayes-Tilden presidential campaign a bystander on the sidewalk said something derogatory. The impulsive Teddy threupon, recording to Almy, "reached out and laid the mucker flat...
Died. Norman ("Corky") Hill, 28, youngest in a family who made a habit of flirting with death at Niagara Falls; of head injuries suffered when a small stone fell 350 ft. down a shaft in which he worked as a mucker; in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Hill's father, William ("Red") Hill Sr., went through the Niagara rapids three times in a homemade barrel, died in 1942 of a heart attack. Corky saved a brother, Major Hill, three years ago, when he tried to imitate his father (he eventually made it). Another brother, William ("Red") Hill Jr., died when...
...that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get elected...
...descended to personal brawls in print. Like many a man with a terrible pen, he preferred the assault on the group. Says he: "I have never found it difficult to be on good terms, personally, with my enemies. I always try to choose decent ones. When I encounter a mucker, I simply avoid...