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...strainer, and you put the strainer in the grease, full depth down to the bottom. Then you fry those oysters in boiling grease until they turn a gold-copper color and rise to the top, and then, you take them out and let them cool just a little bit before you eat them. . . . There is no telling how many lives have been lost by not knowing how to fry oysters, but serving them as an indigestible food. Many times we hear of some man who was supposed to have had an acute attack of indigestion or cerebral hemorrhage or heart...
...Bishop's Rock was 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, thus decisively disposing of Bremen's 4 day-16 hour-15 minute record (Ambrose Lightship to Cherbourg, a 200-mile longer course) for the eastward crossing. As Normandie neared Havre every house seemed to be flying a bit of the Atlantic's speed blue ribbon which the world's largest ship had won for France. Amid tears, cheers and sirens, the world's fourth largest seaplane, also French, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, thundered out from Havre to circle over Normandie, its passengers peering down from...
Some Chicagoans still think that President Hutchins' manner has hurt the University, that the town might have done more for the gown during Depression if he had been a bit more mellow. Friends and philosophers, however, are glad that Bob Hutchins has escaped the fate which Critic Carl Van Doren ascribes to Author Christopher Morley: "He got mellow before he got ripe...
...first real bit of color in the procession came with the twenty-year class, who were white pants, green blazers, and white painters' hats with green visors. They were trailed by the Class of 1920, who were led by a special band, all dressed in army uniform with army tin hats painted with silver. The class members were dressed in orange coats, white trousers, and bright overseas caps...
...noble institution which flourishes every year during reunion time in the pool room of the Union had been busily contributing its bit of cheer since 2 o'clock and so Life had already begun when the curtain went up at Rindge...