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...London papers commended the President for sending his old hat to be re-blocked for Easter. They animadverted upon that glorious Duke of Devonshire who appeared at the smartest spring races year after year in the same hat. He kept his hat for comfort, not economy. Finally, 24 lady friends sent him 24 new hats on the same day. He accepted the gifts, never wore the hats...
...many times before offered to endow such a school. A word from the University is sufficient to set in motion a drive which would very quickly give us a fine experimental theatre where student actors should interpret the plays by student authors, an experimental theatre which would be a glorious testimony to the breadth of vision of Harvard University...
Flag: Candidate Jarres went on to say that the black, red and gold flag was the constituent flag of Germany, but it would not do to use it for partisan purposes. He and his followers demanded the right to honor the old Imperial flag?"the symbol of the glorious past...
...Nice, Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen has been playing tennis, always victoriously. Loungers in the sunshine of the Riviera smiled with tolerant skepticism at these glorious triumphs of the leaping Frenchwoman, for they observed that the women she defeated had seldom been heard of before and were rarely heard of again. They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick...
...commended, but the real pity is that he has robbed American history of a tradition: Paul Revere spurring his nag toward Concord, Daniel Webster with his hair tossed back and his throat well oiled. Abraham Lincoln and his cadaverous friendliness, Grant and his cigar; to this glorious galaxy of national heroes might have been added the epic story of Calvin and his dime, if this "friend" had not draped the pall of anonymity over the gusto of anecdote. Still, some patriotic Ananias should be able, from the postmark "Racine", to create a national legend, or at least a ballad...