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...bank wasn't busted...
...trustees of Roxbury Latin School in Boston, New England, met a month ago to fill a vacancy on their board, and among the alumni suggested as possibilities was James Bryant Conant. They rejected him on the ground that he wasn't well enough known. Three weeks later he was made president of Harvard, and were their faces...
...that get may danderuff, because--well the reasons are too many to mention. Now you take those Dartmouth boys, they're the fine dancers, and I think their football team is just too darling. The only reason Harvard boat them was because they got all the breaks. No, I wasn't there, but I heard all about it. And your hockey team, why that bunch bought off the referees--I heard all about that, too. And you know, I think the Dartmouth drawl has this Harvard accent beaten a mile. They are both a lot of hooey, but I like...
...stood by her. "He was here and they was married a good half-hour before the baby come." Ma had to get the sheriff after Ella's Oscar, but then everything was all right. Laura's baby "come so little ahead of time it wasn't hardly noticeable," but poor Laura married the wrong man. When Lizzie and Carl had a lover's quarrel, Ma straightened it out herself with a shotgun. Evie had a real wedding with all the fixings; but her sisters were horrified when she told them why she had no cause...
...down awhile. Don't often seen anyone around here now except to take exams. It's not like the old days--nothing is for that matter. Say, I remember when the boys used to go over to Brighton to fight the town pool-hall gang. It wasn't all beer they had inside 'em then either! Then there were real riots--gness we won't see many more of those. Well, we'll have beer again soon. But take it from me, beer never has drowned a Harvard thirst...