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...Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Touraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul." and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman sports a dinner waistcoat of distinctive color...
...probably forced the resignation of Lord Lloyd. It was hoped that the Prime Minister's soothing proclamation soon afterward (TIME, Aug. 19) would reassure Egyptians and dispose them to wait until Britannia is ready to dole out their freedom, driblet by driblet. In asking for the whole bowl of porridge at once, last week, rash Prime Minister Nahas Pasha laid himself open to being considered at best an Oliver Twist. The original Oliver, as all remember, was locked up for a week in a "dark and solitary room" by the beef-eating Beadle...
...tired from the ride, and who was Pittsburgh, anyway? In their nine straight victories this year they had not played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the blaze of sunlight in the Rose Bowl. Every seat had been said for weeks. A whistle pricked the piled heat, and a minute later trim, curly-haired, squat Toby Uansa of Pittsburgh jumped through left tackle, snaked 68 yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played in too close. Racehorse Russell Saunders twitched the ball...
...combined opinions of several hundred sports writers were taken into consideration and even then both Stanford and Southern California failed to figure in the final rating. Southern California the day before the award was made known gave Pittsburgh the worst heating an Eastern team was taken in the Rose Bowl since the Annual New Year's Day games were inaugurated. Stanford just a few days previous had sent the Army back smarting under its worst defeat of the year. However next year will have probably twice as many All-American selections and they'll be just as absurd as ever...
...Southern California v. Pittsburgh in Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif...