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This sort of thing is characteristic of singers. Caruso in the midst of his fatal illness sang a performance in Brooklyn when he should have been in bed. Half way through he suffered a hemorrhage of the throat had to stop. His rashness helped him to the grave...
...Board of Bishops of the Methodist Church at its Fall meeting in Brooklyn had many important questions to discuss. But there was none in the long run likely to prove so far-reaching, so dramatic as the question of relations with the Russian Church. Bishop Blake had been summoned home for trafficking with the Russian Church. He faced censure for his acts and opinions, and he came off, not only without censure, but with a measure of commendation...
...think personal property is more secure in Moscow than in Brooklyn...
...Smith, Governor of New York: " In a political speech in Brooklyn I described ' young Colonel Roosevelt' as being 'hopelessly ignorant of state politics.'" Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control proponent: " I announced that hereafter Chicago-not New York- will be the birth control capital of the U. S. In Chicago we shall established our headquarters; from Chicago we shall disseminate our information." Feodor Chaliapin, famed Russian basso: "At a rehearsal in Chicago for Boris Godunov, opening opera of the season, I lost my temper. ' Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni...
...Gates '26, tackle 20 184 6.00 Hill Drews '24, end 21 169 6.01 St. Alban's Tillson '25, end 22 165 5.07 Andover Aldridge '26, end 21 172 5.10 Kent Legendre, S., '25, end 20 172 6.01 Manual Training, La. Beattie '25, back 20 192 6.03 Brooklyn M. T. H. S. Beares '26, back 21 166 5.10 Peabody H. S. Gibson '26, back 20 182 6.00 Peabody H. S. Crum '24, back 22 180 5.11 Derry H. S., Pa. Legendre, M., '25, back 21 177 6.00 Manual Training, La. Shackelford '25, back 21 161 6.00 Episcopal Harvard Statistics Name...