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...without anyone's shouting, "Fix that phonograph, will you? I'm curling my hair!" Whole operas and concerts can be recorded in proper sequence, and are being recorded. Already Victor offers Beethoven's Fifth.. Next month it will be ready with the most popular Victrola classic of all, Tchaikowsky's "Pathetique." After that, the record reformation...
...classic calm of Harvard Yard was disturbed last night for the first time in the present decade by the blended voices of over a hundred singing seniors. Formerly one of the University's most cherished traditions, the melodies of strolling Senior bands on Spring nights ceased with the advent of the Great War and were allowed by succeeding class to linger unnoticed among the shades of the past...
...International Lawn Tennis Federation, admitted to eligibility for Davis Cup competition by a two-thirds vote of her onetime enemies, announced last week that she would enter a team in this year's jousts. Tennis followers recalled the last appearance of Teuton forces in the court classic, when, late in July, 1914, the German delegation concluding their match with the victorious Australasians a few hours before the declaration of War; rushed overseas to join their Kaiser's colors in more deadly combat...
...read "The King's Henchman" with due reverence or he'd have included the lapidary line, "I could do mousily by a crumb of cheese." There are already two schools former and formidable in re the quoted line. One cannot but believe that Miss Millay intended "mousily" to express classic restraint. The other answers that on the contrary "mousily" show a fervid romanticism, for was not "mousily" used by Ooblinskingdorften in his Critique des Souris in which he quaintly puts it. "I under the cheeses will but now be most droneen...
Bramante is said to have shared with Brunelleschi the glory of bringing back to architecture the half-forgotten splendors of classic antiquity...