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...enviable record as an undergraduate. He was captain of the Freshman soccer team, member of the Freshman swimming team, and member of the Freshman Smoker Committee during his first year at Harvard. As an upperclassman, he was a member of the Student Council, the Lampoon, the Speakers' Club, the Phoenix Club, the Institute of 1770, D. K. E., the Hasty Pudding Club and the D. U. Club...
...grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park, will wear no English clothes, sit on no English chair. He prefers to be known by his Gaelic name, Domnhall Ua Buachalla, but will answer to Donal, and insists that his office is not that of a Sassenach governor general, but a good Gaelic Seanascal...
Four men climbed into a big limousine one morning in Palo Alto. The plump man was Herbert Hoover. The others were two secretaries and a chauffeur. Heading eastward across the U. S. the limousine took Mr. Hoover to: 1) Chandler, Ariz. "on business"; 2) Phoenix, Ariz. to spend the night with Arch W. Shaw, Charles G. Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman...
...should like to answer the personal attack made on myself and my article, "The Phoenix in the Babbitt Warren," which appeared in the February "Advocate." The author of this somewhat scurrilous attack chose, for reasons best known to himself, to remain anonymous, and so I must rely on you to call this letter of mine to his attention...
...wish to call attention to a statement in the February "Advocate made by H. M. Wade in his article, "The Phoenix in the Babbitt Warren." In speaking of American literary criticism, he says...