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...climatic period of growth accompanied it. The Corps was increased by 100 cadets, hazing was abolished, and practically all the present magnificent buildings were constructed in the period from 1904 to 1911. Most famed of these for its Gothic beauty is the Chapel, rising from a high spur of land a little removed from the campus...
...when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
...Order of the Golden Militia (also called the Golden Spur) limited to a world membership of 100 knights. In the U. S. no holder; in Great Britain the Marquess of Bute, lord of more than 117,000 acres...
...crow of the fighting cock is Porto Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned...
Henry the Fifth. Walter Hampden, in his delvings into the classic drama, happened upon this occasionally beautiful, often bombastic, box-office piece by William Shakespeare and produced it with all the whisperings, stampings, posturings and spur-clankings that generations of Shakespearian ragpickers in the acting profession have taught people to associate with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially...