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...younger horse clip-clopped into the puddle. He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt. . . . And a very old man who was watching from the pavement decided that the puddle was in truth a magic puddle - perhaps the same puddle Ponce de Leon was looking for when he saw in dreams the goldern city of Cathay. The old man tottered across the Boston street and thrust his hand into the water...
...almost hear him say it, the modern Oxford man, the "frightfully keen" British student of history and politics, the clip-voweled ex-President of the Oxford union, the fresh and lively standee for a Parliament seat from Cricklewood or somewhere. One has heard it often. It is quite true. It may be lamentable. It may be irrelevant...
...painting was the exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote but kindly cynicism their delirious reversion to the bestial. "Hogarthian," said the critics. "Horrible," said the quality...
Practice yesterday was taken up with scrimmage between the two teams, A and B. formed yesterday. This work was alternated with instruction in plays and the plays were run off at a rapid clip. The scrimmages were short and hard...
...Speed Demon" who has recently set all Charlestown by the ears with his 60-mile clip after boasting that he would lead the police a lively dance, is no new phenomenon to Cambridge. For years motorists have driven past the Yard in a manner as bloodthirsty as you please. Recently the tendency to scorch down Massachusetts Avenue with all eight cylinders hitting furiously and the "cut-out" wide open has accelerated perceptibly...