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...even the ski jump at Hanover, can now find a slightly milder joy on the river. From the Lars Anderson Bridge up to Watertown the ice is frozen, and one may choose whether he will frequent the brightly-lighted, windswept expanse near Newell, or go adventuring among the dark coves beyond the infirmary...
...futility of the suggesting placard and the dark and glowering glance has been proven again by the breaking out of another epidemic of cooperative study in the Reading Room of the Library. Two heads are not better than one when a constant flow of whispers pours from them and disturbs their neighbors. The cause of education is rendered an incessant lip service by these individuals, who are innocent of the knowledge that this method survives in the secondary schools of China, but has a place only in the elementary division of American schooling...
...Those seances should be taken as a game and the audiences should play along with me. If they're so stupid as to take me seriously they're fools. Both of us should kid the inspector. The man who cat-calls me in the dark is a coward, why doesn't he do it when the lights...
...scared of Harvard boys trying to kid me in the dark during my seances," were the words of Chatrand the Great, the master magician who is starring in "The Spider," the mystery plays at the Majestic Theatre, this week. Chatrand, otherwise known as John Halliday, was carefully combing his hair and putting on his make-up in his dressing room before the performance...
...coonskin coat, and while Mrs. Coolidge did final wrappings and adjustments (there were five White House Christmas trees to trim), the President worked away in his office. Late in the afternoon he began dictating the speech he will deliver to the Pan-American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button and lit up the Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after...