Hoci-poci

After the various hoci-poci had been achieved, we were led up to the graduate who shared at that time with Elihu Root and “Sunny Jim” Sherman the aura of considerable fame.

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Maybe it’s just a disease which owes its origin to football, but anyhow—the boys who excel in speed, stamina, and muscle surely do have their share of pre-game hoci-poci.

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Black-robed judges, ponderous oaths of admission, apprenticeship notions and rigorous bar examinations, professional renunciation of self-advertisement and a hundred lesser hoci-poci characterize the brotherhood.

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I also resent the fact that for an opportunistic politician, the whole country is thrown into mourning with all the mumbo-jumbo, incantations and even the hoci poci, while the 400-odd are offered as statistics.

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