Class of 1909
SANDY HOOKER DISABUSES OURCONFIDENCE (?) HUH!!!
"R. J. Holmes, 100 Milk St., Boston.
"Blandiloquent Sir: Accurst gadfly!Thrice notorious exemplar of Ananias!!Crawling exponent of diabolic and defamatory viciousness!!! I had intended pacifically to ignore the terminal paragraphof grossly libelous and scurrilous contentwhich—surely through editorial oversight—appeared in the Class News, D.A.M.,1932, 25, 61. You little appreciate hownearly terminal may be the aftermath. Yourbland and fatuous confidence in yourfancied secretarial security from severelypunitive reprisal must be disabused.
"To revert to your malignant misrepresentation of my partner's and my gowfingprowess. By dint of profound celebrationone might detect, in the second sentence ofyour vile screed, a faintly adumbratedapology for the blatant prevarication expressed in the first. One so overtly motivated by legalistic cunning would be expected to consult and respectfully regardfactual data in preference to wish-fulfilment. One possessed of the piscatorialpropensities of your partner may forgivably be wayward in the matter of theverities, but you—you poisson pauvre! The facts, have been duly recorded—as you wellknow, you mephitic fur-bearing mammal(Editor's Note: slang phrase meaningskunk)—and there is further incontrovertible evidence in the shape of Exhibit A:Two dimes—thinly symbolical of course,but none the less convincing to those whoapprehend the Scotch significance of'Jameson,'—now repose under glass witha truly informative and modest—notbraggart—legend.
"The time has passed, when you mighthave acceptably urged in extenuation ofyour ill-conceived misconduct, the factthat you were Somewhat Phil-burdened—the Old Man of the Sea, etc., etc. Blah!In case you foolhardily estimate that anyamount of apologetic slaver might stillbe personally salutary, be warned that theonly leniency you may now look forwardto—you cringing cur—is the privilege ofchoosing whether one lily or one tuberoseshall be placed upon your false bosom between your folded hands." Gadzooks—Our pistols!
A Western newspaper reports that Chief Meyers is the proprietor of a cafe he recently opened at Duarte, Calif.
So many dealers in investment securities have gone ,out of business that we were glad to hear that Stan Gates is still going strong, due possibly to the fact that he has dealt largely in government and municipal bonds, railroad equipment trusts, and other triple A securities. Stan used to come to Cape Cod for his summer vacation. But, some years ago, Stan and a few friends bought a small lake near St. Paul
Secretary, Atlantic National Bank Bldg. 100 Milk St., Boston
