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...field day," a shindig, the kind Denver loves. People scratched their heads to think up things they wanted or did not want. One man offered voice lessons for a tombstone. One wanted to swap a steamer trunk for a suitcase and grip. One wrote: "Will decorate your home as first payment on used car." Another: "Canary, fine singer; sell for $5." Police had to regulate the queues of would-be advertisers. Thirsty automobiles jammed the publishing districts...
...afternoon in Constitution Square. At eve he sought the new Dictator-with and against whom he has plotted many times-presented a petition signed by many a rabble scrawl demanding the formation of a Coalition Cabinet. This demand, already fructifying in other brains, led to a congress of chop, swap and barter between a spoil-ravenous group of military and naval adventurers and numerous former Premiers (Kafandaris, Papanastasion, Michalakopoulos, etc.). For a time anarchy loomed. Eventually General Kondylis, mixing bluster with serpentine intrigue was able to form what he called "a business cabinet." The "recalled" President of the Hellenic Republic...
...swap of the sweeping swipe...
Later he referred to W. O. McGeehan, New York columnist, and immediately the cheering turned to boos and hisses. The speaker set the crowd cheering again, however, by crying: "We'll send word to New York tonight that we wouldn't swap our backfield for what's supposed to be the best backfield in the country. We wouldn't swap our ends. Bradford and Sayles, for Calvin Coolidge and the Secretary of State. We wouldn't swap our line for a French liner with all on board sailing east beyond the three-mile limit. And we wouldn't swap...
...question of football versus academic prestige, by T. A. D. Jones, head coach of the Yale eleven. Coach Jones, who received one of the few postcards that escaped suppression, refused to vote. He did not indicate his belief in McGeehan's declaration that Harvard was ready to swap two presidents and three department heads for a good backfield; and he did not show agreement with the CRIMSON's statement that the University would not exchange one item of its academic prestige for the greatest eleven in history. The Yale mentor merely wrote: "You are only making Harvard and the game...