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...brightest spots of the afternoon, for the Harvard side of the Stadium at least, was the playing of the Harvard Band. Displaying a snap and precision, a rhythm, having besides, a drum major who did not fear the regulation size baton, the Crimson Band, deported itself in such a manner as to win the administration of both cheering sections...
...stirring editorial on our cheers. We have over and over again the same heavy un-Collegey cheer. "Yes, Harvard is too dignified to have a peppy cheer" I hear people say. Other Colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly College students and put more zest and snap in their cheering...
...Franklin sold the corporation's White Star Line, getting about $36,500,000 (TIME, May 17, 1926). That sum approximates the amount of bonds which I. M. M. has owed for years. But President Franklin, astute, did not pay off any bonds. He kept the millions ready to snap up at sacrifice sales, bonds or ships. He has bought overtly no ships during the year, but probably many a bond discreetly offered...
...foot, interspersed between the dangerously gaudy floats, more than 1,000 bandsmen walked, each making a noise on flute or horn or big bass drum. The citizens of Atlantic City stared and stared. The waves of the ocean thundered along a smooth beach and a wind made the flags snap. This was the Annual Atlantic City Beauty Pageant...
Thus supported, M. Daudet could and did snap his fat fingers last week, when friends asked if he would go to jail, saying "Pouff! Pas du tout!" ("Not much...