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Such a faux pas was impossible last week because the Penhoet Shipyards, sagacious builders of the superliner, had provided an automatic bottle-smasher, needing only to be tripped by Mme Lebrun. The christening bottle was a monster, a triple magnum holding six quarts, "Largest Champagne Bottle in the World...
...idea what she is driving at. Though many a Junior Leaguer felt called upon to rave over Orlando, though some who bought or borrowed it managed to wade through The Waves, few in any league would have chosen to make their enthusiasm coherent. Virginia Woolf is certainly no labyrinthine monster, monstrous clever though she be, but her readers, like a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, are apt to mistake her for a kindly old grandmother...
...lacks even the interest of ugliness. Her body (the first article is on The Republican Case, the second is A Preface to Socialism) is unshapely. Her hands at least are lovely (there is some good poetry in the issue). But as a whole Mother Advocate today resembles some mythical monster whose limbs lack all harmony...
...history -2nd Lieutenant Garrison Davidson, Class of 1927-would replace Major Ralph Sasse at the end of the season, Army had its first major game of the year, against Pittsburgh. A 54-yd. run by Pitt's Left Halfback Warren Heller gave Pitt six points; a monster pass, Heller to Skladany, gave Pitt six more. Army got started toward the end of the half. Kilday bunted through Pitt's massive line for one touchdown; Fields, stopped three times on Pitt's 2-yd. line, went around end for a second, to tie the score. The smallest...
engineer. Nearing completion, Dnieprostroy, the monster dam and hydroelectric power plant on which Russia has spent more than 200,000,000 rubles, was officially dedicated...