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Thence, up and I did pour could water into the basin and did refresh myself and so, very sprightly, to breakfast on bran and jam and muffins and thence to stroll along the River whereupon I did meet--and we did marvel at the weather; after which preliminaries we took to examining the morning news. "Experiments have been conducted by Probation authorities," one encouraging bit did read, "and as a result it has been demonstrated that 'bad boys' are no different from other boys, except that the former have been caught." And I thought to myself how wonderful is science...
...been a servant girl, the drunken father who kept the boy practicing at the harpsichord for cruel lengths of time. When Beethoven went to Vienna he was an awkward, ill-kempt young man, flagrantly boorish at the fashionable soirées where he would sit down at the piano, pour out one improvisation after another. He wrote with prodigious energy. First came trios, quartets, sonatas.* The first symphony was criticized for what then seemed to be an excessive use of brasses and timpani. Drums were pounding in ears already growing deaf when, at 34, Beethoven wrote the Third, the Eroica...
...bought and paid for. Three years ago a staff artist for the Illustrated London News produced a classic series of anti-horse-eating sketches (see cut). In Paris humanity to horses about to be eaten is preached by L'Intransigeant, striven for by La Ligue Française pour la Protection du Cheval. Main reform urged is to kill the old nags where they are and go to the expense of transporting their meat in refrigerator cars. Now they are made to transport themselves and frequently not fed between purchase and slaughter some days or weeks afterward, to save...
Things still look bad, both as regards the hanging and the race, until someone has the happy idea of throwing rum-jugs into the furnace, Columbia of fire pour from the stacks and the ship leaps ahead like a wild thing. (Shot nephew mounting scaffold.) Shot of entire personnel of the Marie Lou hurling rum-jugs. One wonders who's steering the boat.) Whistles blowing, bands playing, people cheering...
...Hymn No. 279 was written by the most famed U. S. pulpit orator of this generation, Harry Emerson Fosdick: God of grace and God of glory, on thy people pour thy power; Crown thine ancient Church's story, bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage. For the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour. Thanks to Dean Robert Guy Mc-Cutchan of DePauw University, Methodists are given some tunes new to the hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry...