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...enjoyed some big-game hunting." Following a relapse, he died "in his father's country house" of "bronchopneumonia." Adds Stowell: "I have seen a photograph of my suspect which suggests paranoia by the extravagance of his dress ... He is wearing a 4-in. to 4½-in. stiff starched collar and is showing two inches of shirt-cuff at each wrist. (I was told that he was given the nickname of 'Collar and Cuffs...
Harvard's varsity hockey team had a disappointing time last year, but it is not hard to be optimistic for the coming season. With a lot of high-scoring forwards, the Crimson should be an exciting team and should make a stiff bid for a berth in the NCAA championships...
...simply to stop now, to choose and be done with it, to leave certain questions unanswered. Aili prods, "Keep going, Mary. Keep going until you know who you are." In the closet, the mannequin (Anne Barclay), an old woman now, with smile frozen, holds up a tattered veil. Frozen stiff with waiting. she holds forth the veil to the younger women; it is their turn to wait. And when He comes, she says, "strangle him with it." One solution...
...third with 41 points, as M. I. T.'s standout skipper Maria Buzzupo won the division. After Saturday's races Grant was in second place, only two points behind Buzzupo. But Buzzupo pulled away on Sunday as her experience in M. I. T.'s Tech Dinghies showed in the stiff winds that came...
...tension works for Conduct Unbecoming most of the way, so does nostalgia. These are the Britons who remain romantic heroes in the memories of most middle-aged Americans. Here, they are-the stiff-upper-lipped thin red line, brave, dashing, loyal and incredibly handsome. They always saved the day at some hellish outpost of empire among tsetse flies and assagais. Watching Conduct Unbecoming is almost like seeing the ghost of Lord Kitchener trouncing Lucky...