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...Upon the first appearance of a real, live Soviet ambassador, the streets of Paris rang with cries of "Vivent Ies soviets!" No wonder French Republicans repeat the Arab fable of the camel which, when granted leave to stick his head inside the hut to shield it from the cold, grew insolent and dispossessed the owner altogether...
...Saint-Reault Yves Buhler '20 Galac C. M. S. Grayson '27 Melchoir de Boines Jerome Wheelock '27 Un Domestique Samuel Reber '25 Un autre Domestique Edwardo Andrade '28 Des Millets Ernest Quincy '25 La Duchesse de Reville Ethel Thayer Madame de Loudan Edith Parker Jeanne Raymond Helen Grew Lucy Watson Mary Otis Suzzanne de Villiers Janet Sabine La Comtesse de Ceran Emily Sears Madame Arriego Mary Murray Madame de Boines Rosamond Murray Madame de Saint-Reault Jane Coolidge Femme de chambre Josephine Roach
...after ten years of success in politics, he turned away from it to business. Commodore Vanderbilt made him attorney for the New York and Harlem R. R. As the Vanderbilt railways grew, Depew grew with them until in 1885 he was made President of the New York Central...
...Fascist deputies were released in noisy bombardments when Fascist Deputy Demarsico arose to defend his chief, Benito. One by one he took the arguments of Signer Soleri and metaphorically broke them over his thighs. At each snap of the hapless Soleri indictments, the cries of the Fascisti grew more and more delirious. Came the time for paying tribute to the martyrs of Fascismo. Demarsico turned to Soleri, shouted: "They died smilingly, our 3,000 martyrs, to construct something permanent. Make no illusions for yourselves; they have indeed created something permanent; and their sacrifice will not have been made in vain...
...Berkeley, Calif., Walter Camp and others, to the estimated number of 100,000, sat beneath "Tight Wad Hill" and beheld California suddenly turn upon Stanford, methodically start rending her to bits. Late in the afternoon, Stanford grew annoyed, flung passes, drew from far behind to a 20-to-20 tie. It was the year's most notable Pacific Coast footballing, but indecisive since neither team had been beaten. If there is a titular shade, it favors Stanford, tied but this once to California's twice...