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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1927)
10 THE BATTALION < AGGIELAND PLAYS AT XMAS DANCES Eight Orchestra Artists Tour State During Holidays. The famous Aggieland Orchestra composed of Skinner, Yett, Brauer, Brummit, Pink, Eckles, Callaghan, and Werner, during the Christmas Holidays played for dances at the leading cities of Texas. Most of the dances were sponsored by A. & M. clubs of the following towns: Corsi cana, Waco, San Antonio, Houston, Galveston, Wharton and Yoakum, all of which lasting from nine until two. Dances played for other than A. & M. Club dances were fraternal club dances; the places honored by the music rendered by our orchestra were Mexia, Waco, Gonzales, and Cuero, the latter being of a marathon nature, lasting from nine until six the following morning. It has been said that Pink has con templated turning in a petition to 1 COMPLETE I STOCK OF —Serge —Whipcord —Gaberdine BREECHES Priced Right I T. K. LAWRENCE I BRYAN I JUST REMEMBER AGGIES We are for you all the time! When you need anything from a DRUG STORE Don’t Forget “Bryan’s Busiest Corner.” THE SMITH DRUG CO. O. S. JOHNSON, Manager Martha Washington Candies the faculty that he be granted a leave “Drug Store Cowboys” and “Jelly- of absence every Thursday for the beans.” If a girl is unpopular purpose of spending the week-ends \ she is called a pill, a lemon. with the fair sex in Austin, that he met between Waco and San Antonio. We wonder why Elam Eckles broke all friendly relations with the “blonde” he met in Cuero. If there is any Freshman who wants a good, ex cuse for coming in contact with “Horace” Brummett, it is suggested that he ask him why he changed his name from Bob to Horace. With the exception of Skinner missing all of his trains the Orches tra made a very successful trip. Professor George H. McKnight of the department of English, in his book “English Words,” says that “in the vocabulary of modern youth, chivalry is dead.” To this list we have added a few words or expres sions often heard in the speech of our a dead one, a priss a tomato, j wet rag, an oil can, a flat tire, a mess, a bore, an old timer or an an cient one, an onion, an old hen, a back number, an iceberg, an ornament, a missfit, a tender foot, and the like. “If she is popular, she is a darb, a | peach, a bird, a belle, a live one, a baby vamp, a whiz, a pippin, a star, a sweet patootie, a baby, a choice jiiece of calico, a sweetums, a snappy piece of work, a pretty Genevieve, a thrill, a flesh and blood angel, a high stepper, a pretty trick, an eye opener, a sweet mamma, a chicken, a real kid, a necker, a walking Sheba, a Queen, a doll, a neatly turned curve, a warm number, a pansy, a gold dig ger, a keen gal, a mean mamma, a swell date, a marvel, and a lovely creation.” Speaking of names for members of the stern sex, McKnight says: “The man who does not take his girl about is a chair-warmer, a tight-wad, a porch warmer, a lounge lizzard, a parlor leech, a flat wheeler, a ham, an egg, a Rube, a light conserver, a dizo, a nut, a hammerhead, or he’s just that type. The one in favor, however, is a candy-leg, a gold mine, a jack full of money, a nifty guy, a thriller, a regular fellow, a full guy, a good sport, a sweet man, handsome devil, a prince, a Sheik, a pleasure hound, a live wire, a tea sipper, and thus we find a sure enough Jelly dubbed to perfection by the fairer sex. —Exchange. “The stork is such a funny bird.” “Yeah?” “It kids the world.” —Exchange. / Lesson No. 1 No vitrified brick pave ment ever wore out from the top down. Lesson No. 2 The ABC of Good pave* ments is Asphalt for filler, Brick for surface, Concrete, Crushed Slag, Crushed Rock (Sand or Gravel) for base. qA <Book for ^pads Scholars Lesson No. 3 Vitrified brick builds the only pavement with two- sided value. yours on request To keep taxes Srom climMng, advocate O-CJ T i. A S T THE BONDS NATie^A^^ViNG^BRlCK MANUFACTURERS A^SQClAtlbN,. ENGINEERS- BliDG;, CLEVELAND, OHIO