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When the golfing honor of a nation is at stake, excitement may run as high as in a great football match. Many an enthusiast who does his daily eighteen must have felt his heart sink when the news of the first day's battle in Scotland for the Walker Cup told of but one American victory out of four matches. The necessity of winning at least five and a half of the remaining eight matches in order to keep the 'scutcheon clear and bring the cup once more to America formed a dismal prospect. Yet no more dismal than...
...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
Paris newspapers have had a good deal to say about the shame Germany ought to feel for letting her sink to penury. The fame of both Wagner and Liszt is international, and if the companion of one and the daughter of the other is left in indigenous circumstances, should not the whole world be stigmatized as shameless...
...endeavor to help Europe in such a way that no discord will arise in the allied camp In this we have failed so far, and if behooves us rather to prevent the impending disaster than to peacefully stay at home and prepare for it. Should Europe sink beneath the sea, would on first ery be. "What of our banks". J. D. LOPOS '25 February...
...sing, the trio in Newark on the piano and two other instruments (to all intents and purposes a pair of steam calliopes), and the gentleman in Wilmington who wishes to talk about the natural development of cucumbers. The general effect is something between water disappearing from the kitchen sink, a street car sour-milking round a curve, and a boiler-factory on the rampage...