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...Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician. From a silk hat he was drawing rabbits, labeled with names of his students. Some of the rabbits' names: Joseph Colt Bloodgood, Simon Flexner, Franklin P. Mall, William Sydney Thayer, Lewellys Barker, Eugene Lindsay Opie, George Blumer, Walter Reed, James Carroll...
Came a hurricane of cheers, boos, whistles and the thunderclap banging of desks. Purple behind his pince nez, Prime Minister Tardieu shook his fist, shouted: "You have no right to say that!" Prudently President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson clapped his silk hat on his head, stalked from the room. Chunky M. Herriot hopped down from the tribune, started down the stairway that faces the section where sit deputies of the right (Monarchist) wing. Instantly they were on their feet, rushed menacingly towards him. Then up rose Minister of War Andre Maginot, six-feet-seven and broad in proportion...
...CRIMSON editors were entertained for an hour yesterday afternoon by the unique story of Frank Fielding, Radio Keith Orpheum's traveling usher, who is on his feet all but two hours each day and is one of six survivors in the International Collegiate Endurance Contest. Clothed in a light silk shirt, and white duck trousers, with a blue sash about his waist, the 19-year old Californian student appeared at 14 Plympton Street and told of the gruelling grind which hope of sharing in a $70,000 award is inducing him to continue until April...
...piled up. The Havemeyer house on 66th Street & Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, large as it was, began to look like a warehouse. When every inch of wall space was covered, Monets, Manets, Degas were piled in the closets. French bronzes and Japanese ivories found their way into Mr. Havemeyer's silk hats, among his collars. Exuberant, enthusiastic Mrs. Havemeyer kept on buying...
...parachute is a hollow hemisphere of strong, light silk or cotton, diameter varying from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...