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...Bustled women and men in ancient beavers crowded the narrow street in front of Central City's opera house, watched Frederic McFarlane present the keys of the house to Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter of the University of Denver. Then they all filed inside to see woebegone Actress Lillian Gish perform in the sad, sad story of Camille...
...afternoon matadors killed the six fine bulls of Don Ernesto Blanco for the glory of Spain's national sport. The next three days the encierro was repeated with different batches of bulls. At the end of four days thousands of people had seen Spain's leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...
...Translation: Caesar replied that Pharnaces would meet with the utmost justice if he would perform his promises. Exsecuturus esset is a "quoted condition...
...none of the Hoover proposals last week was the refusal of Washington to assent to what Japan has done in Manchuria. I ask you to remember," said Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, tut-tutting the Hoover proposals, "that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible...
...that neither surgery nor medicine could help-only the patient, determined education of his muscles, achieved by himself. Professor Dandy suggested that Mr. Carlson study medicine so that he might help others similarly mauled by birth. Yale Medical School accepted the student, reluctantly. How would he be able to perform his hospital duties? Professor Frederick Tilney, Columbia University neurologist, promised a job at the Neurological Institute upon graduation. "Bud" Stillman helped pay tuition and maintenance expenses. Medical Student Carlson had saved some money from his own earnings...