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...evening last week, Mr. Calisch sat at his usual table in his usual cafeteria. In came a slender figure in a serge coat and grey "bellbottom" trousers, with a cap pulled so far down over the cadaverous face that only the high hooked nose of Emanuel Silberstein showed out from beneath. Moving up behind his old tutor, the youth raised a squat hammer (a cobbler's) and beat upon the bowed white skull. James Calisch was unconscious, his cranium crushed beyond repair, before other patrons could seize Student Silberstein...
...churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress to a gold plate, to a plain linen cap, to the present splendid crown. It symbolizes in the Roman Church the retention of papal temporal power. As in all the Anglican (and U. S. Episcopal) devices, it has been appropriated from Rome...
...recovery putt. He sized up putt after putt thereafter, over expanses of Long Island real estate that sometimes extended 40 and 50 feet, holing a long series of incredible shots. Sarazen, grimly grinning, turned off a 70 that any other man, at any other moment, would have waved his cap over. But Sarazen had no cap. "What's the use of a 70, anyhow?" he said as he shook Smith's hand. Smith's last putt had dropped...
...just want old to say that you ought to have listed old Rutgers with her Cap to and Skull among the colleges with senior honor societies in [TIME, May 31, EDUCATION]. I'm not a Rutgers man myself, having schooled where lots of others did in the university of hard knocks. So of course I'm not intimate with Cap and Skull. But that lets me write you what those modest boys wouldn't be able to-that right here in New Brunswick is one of the dandiest old colleges in the country and in that college...
Heard in Manhattan at the Plaza Hotel ten-year-old Oscar Throngren recite a poem, "The Bells," composed by the Prince's brother. Little Oscar was dressed in the costume of Varmland, consisting of yellow knickerbockers, white stockings, red jacket, red and black cap. The Prince knew others of the children gathered there from a visit they had paid him in Sweden: "How you've grown!" said...