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Heywood Campbell Broun wrote in his column for the New York World: "For ages I had been curious to know what would happen if the nose of a great editor were shattered. I find that it bleeds. ... I do not like to come scot-free when friends of mine in the same car are injured. Besides, a great many duties devolve upon the member of the party who is not lacerated. I hailed the passing limousines with hoarse cries of 'Hospital!' and I must say there is no great congestion of Samaritans in Central Avenue...
...auditors, more than one brain had been turned by Sari Fedak. Does not Count Emerich Dagenfeldt, now an old man, dwell locked in a wing of his castle, preparing incessantly gifts and toys for the two non-existent children whom he believes are his by Sari Fedak? Such things happen in Hungary, where certain ancient family strains have achieved notable degeneration. Perhaps it was by mere chance that Count Emerich Dagenfeldt went mad soon after Sari Fedak became mistress and then (after some six years) wife to Ferenc Molnar. Another question: The Court: "Did you really call the plaintiff...
...critics admire his virile compositions, his color effects. In his art they perceive that however repetitious his works, they are all like the man himself, boldly individualistic. Since he has no patience with the life or art that shelters itself from wind and storm, he finds queer things happen to him. He was born at Tarrytown Heights, N. Y., his one conventional experience. From Horace Mann School, he testifies, he was dismissed as a hopeless moron. At Columbia University they found him a "capital" student, but finding the University after three and a half years a little irksome he blithely...
Special Delivery. Eddie Cantor's art is a matter of sustaining punches in the eye, somersaults down elevator shafts, kicks, with perfectly immobile countenance. All this he does and little more in the course of a series of gags illustrating what can happen to a sublimely stupid letter carrier whose flashes of shrewdness are funny when unexpected...
...came here tonight," he said, "I was frankly worried. The Princetonian has a good team--I don't underestimate their strength a bit, so far this season their record has been distinctly better than ours. But when I heard you yelling here tonight I knew something was going to happen. With a noise like that behind them the boys can't lose." Then followed the statement of uncompromising confidence in the team which has already been quoted. Adolph, the CRIMSON mascot, jumped to his feet waving the red flag presented to him by E.A. Whitney '17, in the days when...