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...stabbing, swooning and falling. Grand Opera performers are not artists unless they hurl themselves into the action as well as the music. It is surprising that more artists are not hurt, especially during rehearsals when they are working up routines, yet Grand Opera mishaps are usually more silly than solemn, and provide people with amusing table talk. Metropolitan devotees still chuckle over the impetuous Jeritza who kept falling and singing arias from unlikely positions. Oldsters remember how, in 1905 at the Met, the bridge across which Carmen was to make her escape suddenly collapsed and sent 15 members...
Somewhere in the archives there is an old book entitled "Humorous Verses and Sketches Relating to Harvard College." Attracted perhaps by the 'humorous verses", one finds that they are far outdone in humor by the solemn "Laws of Harvard College in 1769", which serve as a reminder that in those days there was more to Harvard than humorous verses...
...stripping them naked, dragging them through the streets, plundering the houses, and sparing not even children. Blessed be God who has converted the French princes to His cause! May He inspire their hearts to continue as they have begun!" When the good news reached Rome, the Pope held a solemn Mass of thanksgiving. A contemporary diplomat thus reported how Catherine emerged from the bloodbath she had ordered: "She looks ten years younger and gives me the impression of a person emerging from a grave illness or who had just escaped from some great danger." Once again-this-time...
...tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which to ski and rub the protesting faces of their loves. And all to the great irritation of the Vagabond, shouting a Happy New Year. Then and there he makes a solemn vow never to wish more than one such felicitation. Repetition strains the worth of sentiment. Besides, the wisdom of being happy about the New Year is doubtful. Better to wish a Happy Mid-Year's or a Merry Reading Period... The Vagabond ambles aimlessly, until he meets with a Radcliffe...
...would have been found to rid the country of you. but no one seems to possess the courage required to order you back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall do so." In numerous other notes polysyllabic English writers informed Mrs. Simpson that the date draws nigh when she will indubitably perish...