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...meal at which President Coolidge received Mr. Lorimer been dinner instead of breakfast, a prediction by Mayor Thompson would have come true. In 1910, just prior to Mr. Lorimer's ejection from the Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there...
...football was a game. The tradition which made football for any and all a part of the athletic policies of Harvard and other universities had its inception in Percy Haughton. The annals of sport are not so complete but that heroes' names are soon forgotten. It is safe to predict that this will not be the case with the memory of Percy Haughton. Even if it should be go, he would be content with a lifework well done, whose end is not yet in sight...
...Presidents will learn a lesson about the embarrassments of amity. For in spite of President Coolidge's "heat," in spite of a tart suggestion by President Coolidge that Ohio politics* colored Senator Fess's interpretation of the country's "strong demand," Senator Fess continued to predict more freely than ever the renomination of the man he calls on so often...
When he had first gone to Minneapolis, from St. Andrew's Memorial Church, Yonkers, N. Y., his good friend the late John Pierpont Morgan,* said to him: " You'll not be happy in a town of 300,000 inhabitants. New York is where you belong. You'll stay, I predict, no more than six months in Minneapolis." He stayed from...
Critics retaliated, picking cobb's worst, such as: "I've just learned that that distinguished bookworm, Mr. Gene Tunney, reads my stuff, so now I am moved more strongly than ever to predict that, in the event of a third meeting between him and Mr. Dempsey, the result will be another triumph for clean literature...