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...Half a dozen special newspaper correspondents aboard, however, recorded reams of trivial happenings. Most of the 51 passengers admitted they had difficulty remembering they were in the air, so steady was the motion, so familiar were the accommodations to steamship travelers. Dr. Hugo Eckener had shouted: "Auf, Schiff!" at Friedrichshafen at 9 p.m. An hour later practically all passengers had tired of peering at the lights of Germany, adjourned to the bar. Stewards wandered about with telegrams. A man played incessantly on the aluminum piano. Lady Wilkins had the honor of taking the first bath in the icy shower...
Dining in a Chatham, Ont. hotel, Composer Sigmund Romberg took a fancy to the hotel harpist, asked her to play Deep in My Heart from his Student Prince. The harpist did not know it. Could she play his Only a Rose? No. His Auf Wiedersehen? No. Composer Romberg ripped off his collar, autographed it, thrust it at the harpist, finished his dinner collarless...
...have set the clock to turn off my lights at 10 o'clock. It always works. Auf Wiedersehen...
...dull monotony of a class in German A was broken momentarily yesterday as one of the readers stumbled upon this rather savory bit of stage directions encountered in a play they were reading: "Kussen sich. Es lautet. Sie springen auf...
...censorship of a contemptibly petty stamp exists in this University. I refer to the use in certain language courses of texts in which the editors have seen fit to make deletions from the originals. Any one who has compared the authorized edition of Keller's "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" with the high school text now used in German 1a can appreciate how the editor of the latter has so subtly and judiciously blue-penciled as to change completely the essential point of the story...