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Every convenience is here at your command and we stand ready to meet your inspection and patronage. We feel that nothing has been omitted in the appointments and dining facilities of Oxford Courts and logically it is a place for your regular luncheon and dinner appointments, after theatre tidbits, and social functions...
Although "The Bloody Shirt," a striking narration of political chicanery in the American Legion, will command a wider circle of readers than any other of the Advocate's current offerings, it is around "The Rally" that immediate Harvard interest will chiefly center...
...permit me to enlighten your omniscient Religious Editor. The command to put the blood of the pascal lamb on the two door-posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first...
...federal judge would doubt it, he is going to absurd lengths to put the idea over. Anyone who can shed new light on athletics has little need for fifty proven strong men to help him. He should be writing for the newspapers. Single handed he could command a larger sum for a single Sunday appearance than his whole stage full of helpers will attract in a winter. The daily Sartores Resarti of the sport situation support unnumbered experts; a new phase of athletics would be a wow even though as untailored as any Vanities that ever trod a board...
Nineteenth Century. Victoria's cream-colored ponies trotted up the avenue with a command for Orlando to dine; Lady Palmerston and Mrs. Gladstone left cards, but bored Orlando withdrew to the woods with her lover. True, she solemnly married him and bore her first child?but such was the irresistible convention of the crinoline...