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...entered, accompanied by Hon. Edward T. Sanford '85, President of the Harvard Alumni Association, the entire assembly rose and stood in silent tribute. Silently they watched the President-Emeritus mount to the platform and walk slowly to his seat of honor in the center. Then came a sudden spontaneous burst of applause. The music of the orchestra became louder as the rest of the procession walked slowly into the hall before Chief Justice Taft and President Lowell, followed by Dean Briggs and President Angell of Yale, headed the long line of notables who slowly mounted the platform and took their...
...South Sea crabs which climb cocoanut trees at night, cut down the nuts with their shears and come down to eat the meat of the nuts which have burst in falling. The planters are compelled to protect their trees with collars of tin about six inches wide, on which the crabs cannot get a foothold...
...Interior that reserve was leased to the Sinclair Oil interests. There was much conflicting technical testimony about the wisdom of that lease?and some smoke was raised. It was not until last week, when an apparent contradiction in Mr. Fall's declarations was discovered, that the Senate burst into the full flame of oratory...
...Miracle. The rays of collective genius, gathered from many lands by Morris Gest and focused to a burning point of matchless beauty, have burst at last into full flame. The light of The Miracle must henceforth be the sovereign beacon for theatrical spectacle. It has bewildering splendor, apparently limitless magnificence. More important than all, it has a narrative intensity that makes it a memorable emotional experience...
...only thing new about all this is the quality of the cigars. . . . Mr. Butler is a shrewd, hard-headed man. You feel that the Corona Coronas are not an accident. Like Alexander Hamilton, he can touch the rock of political resources and abundant streams of revenue will burst forth...