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...Callahan '28, football captain last year at Lawrence High. He is the younger brother of the famous Callahan brothers, J. T. ("Tim") and H. A. ("Mike"). The two older Callahans were gridiron captains at Yale and Princeton respectively in 1920 and played opposite each other in the Eli-Tiger battle...
...Institut de France and guard the purity of the French language with the vigilance of a duenna-decreed that the word "cocktail" has no place on the tongue of the Frenchman. Not even was coquetcle, a substitute compromise, allowed. The word is outlawed. Georges Clemenceau, "The Tiger," was interviewed in Vendee. He stood under an oak and said: "This is my old friend. A little older than I. It has lived 2,000 years...
...interviewer mentioned the League of Nations. Purred the Tiger: "I thought we were talking about trees. How can you talk of the League when the weather is so sweet, the sky so clear and the oak so beautiful...
...Monday, with five stars from last year's team and five more from the Freshman team, on the field for practice. These men are the nucleus of the sixty-odd candidates, and with later arrivals, are the material with which Coach Roper will make his last attempt for Tiger glory...
...feels kindly toward the author for having written The Tiger in the House Peter Whiffle and The Blind Bow Boy. But this Countess tale levies a supertax on one's patience, so full is it of bad writing mingled with good, of cheap, pink-necktied flatulence cluttered over real understanding...