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...this same Scholar will unbend so far as to slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar...
...modern construction. It is the fastest commercial flying boat in the world, driven by a Liberty motor and having a speed of 130 miles per hour when fully loaded with pilot, four passengers and gas for three or four hours' cruising. A single wing is adequately braced by a pair of struts projecting on either side from the hull, the structural resistance in the air being reduced to a minimum. The engine starts at the pressing of a button ? gone are the days when mechanics had to swing a propeller painfully and dangerously and many times. Passengers are partially...
...their chums and relatives. . . . Having finished their education, the three young men established themselves in business and became married (to boyhood sweethearts). Later Dick Rover was blessed with a son and daughter, as was also his brother Sam, while the fun-loving Tom became the father of a pair of lively twin boys." Dick, Tom, and Sam now live in adjacent dwellings on Riverside Drive. They would. And all three are in business in Wall Street - with The Rover Company, Inc. - and undoubtedly they lunch together on crackers-and-milk, that manna of the American business man, and they have...
...players who will represent the University at the Intercollegiates next week at the Merion Country Club near Haverford, Pa., will be Captain Duane, Pfaffman, Ingraham, Guild, and Briggs, according to an announcement made yesterday by the H. A. A. Duane will not take part in the singles, but will pair with Ingraham in the doubles tournament; Pfaffman and Guild will make up the second doubles combination for the University...
...much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: WHOSE BODY?−Dorothy L. Sayers−Boni and Liveright ($2.00). A respectable little London architect wakes up one morning to dis- cover the body of an unknown Israelite, nude except for a pair of gold pince-nez, in his bathtub. Whose body? And who is responsible for its presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter, at last discovers the solution...