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...wearing a cocked hat and displaying an immense brass shield called last week at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently indicated its conception...
What Picassos, Rousseaus, Matisses will crown the next decade? None of the critics who choked down their giggles as they studied the pictures of potentially immortal Independents could very well say. There were too many queer ones, new ones, sad ones, naughty ones, for a measured judgment. There was, for instance, a picture by a Russian, one David Burliul, in which he visualized the vibrations of modern city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains...
...without the loss of a single meet, and which netted them the state and national championship. This year, the team lost but three of 45 matches, and but one in the national championship tourney. Captain Dixon showed his ability as a leader by capturing the National Individual Squash Championship crown...
...just closed found the Crimson racqueters at the top of their form. They went through the season without losing a contest, and dropped only three matches. The team again won the state championship and safely defended its national title. W. P. Dixon '25 again won the national individual squash crown, but this time he did not represent Harvard. The team was composed of: Captain G. D. Debevoise '26, L. S. Haskins '26, P. M. Lenhart '27, H. N. Rawlins '27, R. S. Wright '26, and Manager G. H. Perkins...
Ascending the throne, His Majesty sat down successively eight times, each time facing a side of the octagon, each time sprinkled with holy water by the clergy, who invited the eight principal gods of Siam to enter his person. Rising, he walked to another throne, where he placed the crown of Siam upon his head and invited his queen to sit beside him, thus raising her to royal rank. Finally, he proceeded to the great Temple of the Emerald Buddha, renowned among travelers, and there proclaimed himself Defender of the Faith...