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...Nurse. Musical comedy of the middle grade is difficult to discuss. It is never stimulating and never wholly dull. Usually a musical comedy of this type has two or three outstanding events. In the present opus these were: the clowning of May Boley and Don Barclay, a tune...
Thomas N. Dysart, President of the Association, scored the "blue-sky" laws, which attempt to save the ignorant stock buyer from the clutches of unscrupulous dealers. He said that in actual practice these laws, by complicating sales, hamper the flotation of high-grade stocks...
...good-grade Britishers know, the owner "of Elveden Hall is the luxury-loving Viscount Elveden, first Earl of Iveagh. At 78 he is one of the most notable British exponents of la chasse de luxe. His huntsmen-guests are dined wherever they chance to find themselves at mealtimes, with the aid of an especially built traveling kitchen. Throughout his almost limitless estates there are scattered more than a sufficient number of hunting lodges, at which opulent shelter...
Cornell's uncertain team, held scoreless in the first half, worked up steam slowly like an old locomotive on a slippery grade until it went fast enough to beat Canissius...
...selection of these men, the committee took into consideration prizes in literary competitions, and forms of mental work, besides the class-room grades. The grade average was based on the nine highest marks in the case of Juniors, and the 13 highest marks of the Seniors. Courses credited from other institutions were counted...