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Hello, Lola. Booth Tarkington's novelized report of puppy love and its perils reached the stage agreeably enough and amused many people. It has now wandered farther afield to become a musical comedy, rather less happily. Reference is made of course to Seventeen...
...Times?romanesque nose, sagging eyes, together with the skinny neck and long horselike upper lip which are so often the characteristics of the more unfortunate female members of the British nobility. She saw herself described as "a pretty young woman." The Daily News (for gum-chewers) went even farther afield...
...Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality in a History Department of the Far West; or again, upon an editor, reputed as sagacious as he was vigorous; upon a divine, a barrister, a minor college official whose good works had shewn forth...
...going even further afield. It was announced last week that he would go on a hunting expedition with the famed hunter Carl Akeley into the interior of Africa...
...Fellows appointed have been selected from all parts of the United States, from Massachusetts to California, and will pursue research, not only in Europe, but as far afield as India, Mesopotamia, and South America. The list of appointments includes one woman...