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...editors of the CRIME wasted precious time yesterday afternoon waiting for the New England dignitaries to come out into the open from their secret revels in University Hall. Greeted by the undignified rattle of dishes from the upstairs windows, and by the very halting emergence of notables, the editors formed their peculiar and untimely opinion that they were in favor of a wholesale inauguration or none at all. They wanted a big jamboree at which students might roam; eating sandwiches and looking around for the new president...
...Indians, French-Canadians and half-breeds spending the proceeds of their winter fur catches. Only doctor within a 300-mi. radius was William Beaumont, an Army surgeon who meticulously recorded in a diary every medical tittle and jot he performed. For June 6, 1822, the entry, now a precious incunabulum in the history of U. S. Medicine, reads...
This fundamental meaning attached to gold, of course, has its repercussions in many and varied phases of existence; the precious metal is as important to the jeweler as to the economist. For this reason, everyone knows a little about it; and because it is so important to everyone, its recovery is work for willing hands always. It is much more sensible to set a ruined rag merchant to planning gold than to put a sapling in his hands with orders to plant it. And though earnings may be low for the place miner, he is doing something which does...
...personality of Charlie Chan is fairly well known; he is more human and more credible than Mr. Holmes, less precious in deduction than Mr. Vance, but has one serious dramatic defect. That is his Oriental origin, which calls into play all the ridiculous flummery which passes on the domestic stage for a Chinese accent, which was almost the ruin of Mr. Colton's Shanghai Gesture and which will survive until Mr. Nathan at last hoots it into ignominy...
Though she has lived among artists and pictures all her life there is nothing precious or arty about her. Two subjects which bulk large in ordinary lives-money and love-she hardly mentions in Alice B. Toklas. It is a strangely impersonal book. Her only reference to her interior life is the admission that when she was 17 ''the last few years had been lonesome ones and had been passed in an agony of adolescence." If curious readers wonder why she passes over these matters so lightly, they may answer themselves by reflecting that no doubt Gertrude Stein...