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...beginning his second term as U S President when a man named Walter Platt Cooke, recently come of age, put his legal services in the Buffalo market. He knew Buffalo-it was about the only city he did know. It had supplied his crib, his rattle, his roller skates, his education- everything except an LL. B. degree which he had obtained from across the hills, at Cornell University...
...card-monte man. There is the rich Peyton Lennox for her later on. She is Carol Dempster and he is Alfred Lunt, but W. C. Fields is W. C. Fields. If you do not think he is funny you had better have a thorough going over with a steam roller...
Yale came back in the ninth, however, to gain the verdict. Hammersley beat out a slow roller to Pollard, a lucky break for the Blue which put Barbee in a hole. Vaughan followed with a three base drive to right center, Hammersley scoring, and Caldwell immediately sent Vaughan home with a single over the closed-in infield. Barbee retired the next three men with little trouble, but Harvard went out in one-two-three order in the last half of the inning...
...indeed! In describing the first night of John Howard Lawson's "Processional," Mr. Don Passos, who takes the play as his model, compares the surprise of the audience to that of a maiden lady on a roller coaster for the first time. To him, the drama as we have it is the work of such a maiden lady, and he wishes to substitute for it something comparable to the obvious popular method of the roller coaster, an engine which he appears to think has been a powerful instrument for good in the development of our American culture...
...said the separate states would necessarily fail to regulate the labor fairly owing to the fact that conditions vary in each state. C. M. Gifford, Wesleyan's second speaker, practically won the decision for his team by his smooth delivery and his argument that the amendment "like a steam roller, would crush out all local interests and ideals...