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There must have been just a bit of consternation at the story down on Morningside Heights the next morning and adjust a bit of a chuckle to temper it. For what else could worry Yale so that it had to practice on Sunday if it were not the thought that Columbia's Lou Little and his boys would only wait about another week before devouring the Bulldog, stub tall...
...take on the atmosphere of a professor's bad dream. With one man in every six on the government relief rolls, with an avowed Socialist about to become the Democratic Governor of California; with capital slowly beginning a flight out of the country, the conventional happy ending seems a bit doubtful. Of course there is still time to work around to the usual solution, but indications point to a collapse of government credit before the final curtain. In addition, the playwright has placed a broad interpretation on the laws of the drama and has placed their enforcement in unlooked...
...efforts of many a German to explain his magnetic power over great audiences Orator Hitler contributed last week this disarming bit of candor...
...roar of laughter followed his reading of the first two paragraphs, followed by even more hearty enjoyment as he followed down the page. "The adjective is a bit unfortunate," he bellowed, pointing out the "bombastic" with which he was characterized, "but all the rest is true...
...position at the Gay Nineties, that incredible age which refused to recognize the existence of a lady's by on the main through fare, but which maintained a segregated district running full blast in a back alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts by slipping furtively down to the Old Howard Athenaeum (take subway to Scollay Square, walk down to Howard Street...