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...rumor, spread in last night's Boston press that Mal Stevens, Yale football coach, intended to resign his post to Adam Walsh at the end of the season, regardless of what luck the Bulldogs had, was emphatically denied last night by the Yale News...
...life Baudelaire achieved fame by publishing Les Fleurs du Mal, by espousing Dandyism, by living with the negress Jeanne Duval. Only the most enthusiastic Baudelairians know his brilliant Salons, the pitiful Journaux Intimes, his Petits Poémes en Prose. And today it is only in Les Fleurs du Mal that Baudelaire exists...
...Baldwin is a veteran of the Argonne. His Army experiences followed nine months of naval mal de mer. His wife, Mrs. Marthe Guillon Verne Baldwin, is a niece of famed Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Politically, Mr. Baldwin echoes Mrs. Pratt, of whom he is a close friend...
...Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
...gain a confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will lose its royal coat of arms and the motto, Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense (Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks), on its reverse side and will receive in exchange the royal initials "G. R." (Georgius Rex), as will the two-shilling pieces...