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Chirped the "Kingfish": "I made about $25,000. ... I spent it for brass bands. football games and drinks for my friends. I.got some good...
Though they may have been bruised by the brass buttons down the front of the cadet dress uniform, most young ladies agree that West Pointers are among the world's best dancers. Responsible for the high quality of dancing at the Military Academy for the past 52 years was Rudolph W. Vizay. Last week the national colors were half-staffed at West Point and his old pupils the world over mourned the passing of 77-year-old Dancing Master Vizay, who died at the Academy hospital following a heart attack...
...made an honorary member of the Glee Club and the Choral Society. Tomorrow the Club will sing "O Gladsome Light," a piece composed by Davison, as a memorial to him. In addition, Holst's "Dirge for Two Veterans" will be sung under the direction of Dr. Davison accompanied by brass and drums from the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Though Skagway was his last resting place, Denver still remembers Jefferson Randolph Smith as one of the most picaresque figures of its bad old days. A slight, dapper, persuasive man, with a silver tongue and a front of brass, his original racket was selling soap on the street. He sold two kinds: in one pile an ordinary "miracle-working" soap, at 25? a cake; in the other, bars at five dollars, whose wrappers enfolded an occasional banknote. The crowd of suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates...
...endless conversationalist, at her best when she takes off in a nonsensical plane of pretense. Her favorite jape is to pose as an abandoned woman who is living in sin with her author-husband, Charles G. ("Ceegee") Norris (Bread, Brass, Salt). This tomfoolery runs on & on, like a Chinese play, with "Kay" Norris ringing all the changes on her alleged state of total depravity...