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...schools there are which annually impress their friends and bore most of their students by staging a classical drama, usually something translated from Plautus or Aristophanes. It would indeed startle the public if leading newspapers gave these events more than cursory notice. Were a newspaper to publish long passages from such a play, readers would suspect the editor had gone mad. In England the public views the classics differently...
...under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore him eight children-all daughters. When the Naval Academy at Annapolis was founded (1845), Buchanan was made Superintendent. A stern disciplinarian, he once unbent so far as to forward the following application from 38 cadets to the Secretary of the Navy: "Sir-We the undersigned midshipmen of the Naval School...
Last week the new Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt. Backed by the government of Great Britain, to whose Sovereign he has been sending presents of pink preserved milk (TIME, Dec. 16), Frontispiece Fuad has an excellent chance of retaining his throne at least until the next issue of the Almanach...
Trustworthy despatches announced the complete destruction of an entire "Ironsides" brigade, 2,000 rebel casualties. 7,000 rebels captured and disarmed, and the flight northward of Chang Fa-K'uei himself. Swollen bodies floating like logwood down to Canton bore mute corroboration...
...first three numbers led one to believe that the whole program would be the effeminate, pretty sort of thing that expresses nothing and gives those who are in the know an intellectual kick. The audience bore with them, however, and was amply rewarded by some of the most thrilling works of art that it had ever seen. Kreutzberg and Georgi were on the crest of the wave from the moment he did his masterly "Revolte". And they stayed there for the rest of the program, rising to their greatest heights in a Debussy interpretation, "Romantic Scene", "Three Mad Figures", "Persian...