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...tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves of all descriptions, some attached to frying pans. Swinging hilarity and frenzy, all having a glorious time, with rum and without. All to the rhythm you aptly classify as 'hot.' These boys can make it so hot it melts and sears into one's memory...
...daring and resourceful, he never shirked from deception, cruelty, or pillage. Too often people are prone to see only the gallantry of the Conquistador, without realizing the wreckage he brought upon the beautiful city of Mexico, surrounded by a broad lake filled with floating gardens and stocked with the glorious achievements of Indian art. If the Aztec religion demanded the palpitating hearts of its victims to appease the fury of the Gods, none can say that the Spanish Inquisition was more lenient...
...Arthur Train, successful lawyer and novelist, has written a super-biography entitled "Puritan's Progress." It is a biography of America told in terms of the Train family. Mr. Train's own undergraduate career at Harvard, twoscore years ago, seems to have been rather lonely, punctuated chiefly by one glorious trip to Boston which ended in an almost unconscious invasion of the dean's study. But forget Cambridge of forty years ago and turn to Brown when Mr. Train's father was an undergraduate at Providence. Here is the bill he paid: To Tuition $12.00 Room rent 3.00 University Library...
...years ago last week (while the White House was inhabited by Ulysses Simpson Grant) one Paul von Hindenburg, 23, Prussian lieutenant, cheered himself hoarse in the Palace of Versailles, hailed the first German Emperor, Wilhelm I, hailed Prince Otto von Bismarck's proclamation of the "German Realm," the glorious Deutsches Reich! The Realm or Reich remains-as a republic. Last week the victorious Imperial banners of 1871 were unfurled again in the Reichstag (this time by steel-helmeted Republican troops) and old Paul von Hindenburg, President of the Republic, searched his heart. He is 83. To a microphone, directly...
Cold snap and cold brains leave the Vagabond with nothing to do but place feet on the andirons and consider the pretzel divinities of yesterday: the old beery Gods of Examinations that were so glorious until Mencken and the literary smart set made sauerkraut out of them. In that mind's eye of his that has enfolded so much nebulosity, the Vagabond at rest watches with the sad sublimity of a Greek stoic the passing of Harvard into tabloid education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through...