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Half an hour after adjournment the Senate floor was empty except for some charwomen standing hesitantly around the walls and a lone Senator bent over his desk with head in arms. Lifting his head with a start, Leader Robinson glanced at the waiting charwomen, gathered up a bundle of papers, trudged wearily...
...Seven lone, snow-covered, cars testify to Lehman Hall's lack of wisdom and faulty economics in attempting to compete with other garages and parking spaces around the Square in supplying a haven for undergraduate autos. The principal reason for the economic failure of the parking space is the high rates which the Business Manager has instituted...
...some Nazi Storm Troopers loitering in the station Miss Sittell was moved to say, "Those are awful uniforms you're wearing." The Storm Troopers summoned the lone policeman of Waldmohr, a village three miles distant. He charged Stenographer Sittell with "insulting the Realmleader," clapped her into the village jail. When correspondents arrived they found the village in a panic. Nobody would say anything except the policeman. "Now don't go writing any atrocity stories," he begged. "Fräulein Sittell has plenty of food and all possible conveniences. Her dancing around merrily in her cell is the best...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...this baby of Harvard sports, the Crimson has won 26 of its 31 meets and B. U. according to all predictions is bound to be victim No.27. Of the five defeats, four went to the credit of Yale, which annually reached the ultimate in piscatorial perfection. The lone legitimate trouncing was at the hands of West Point...