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...likewise a revelation to know that Wagner has popularized "a longing for a higher life, coupled with a tremendously powerful appeal to the vigor of bodily movement", to which last current society music is also dedicated. No comparison is possible between the bombastic "An American in Paris" and an opera so highly emotional as "Tristan and Isolde...
...birth. He hates the place. Muscat is the world's hottest city, with an average annual rainfall of only 3½ inches, frequent temperatures of 189 degrees in the sun. The Sultan spends most of his time in India, which he finds like Bar Harbor by comparison, but he spends Ramadan with his people. Short time ago he swore that this would be his last, abdicated in favor of his son who is now old enough to roast through Ramadan in his place...
...results of today's battle will have an important bearing on the game with Yale next Saturday as the Elis have trounced the New Hampshirites soundly on three occasions and a comparison of scores is bound to have its psychological effect on the team. Harvard this afternoon has the difficult task of playing a game in which there is everything to win and nothing to lose. Victory can only reaffirm the result of the first game while a win by the Indians, desperate from a season of unsweetened defeat and playing on their home ice, have more than an outside...
...Museum at Omaha you describe its donor, Mrs. Sarah Selleck Joslyn, as eccentric and sometimes known as the "Corn Belt's" Hetty Green (TIME, Jan. 11). Several years ago Mrs. Joslyn was voted Omaha's most useful citizen by the American Legion, and the only true comparison to Hetty Green, is her possession of wealth. She should not be described as eccentric, unless this word is used to describe philanthropy and unselfishness -two attributes Mrs. Joslyn possesses and Hetty Green lacked. You have also sacrificed accuracy for sensation alism in describing the creation of the Joslyn fortune...
...Ampersand Hotel, built in 1888, razed by fire in 1907. Today on Lower Saranac Lake stands a new Hotel Ampersand. The name is taken from an Ampersand Mountain, an Ampersand Lake, an Ampersand Brook, probably a corruption of "amber sand" on the lake shore rather than a learned comparison between the brook's crookedness...