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Class B. singles with a long entry list has been progressing slowly. Most of the matches are now in the third round. Joshua Sands Jr. '29, H. W. Rubsamen '29, and Edward Swift '30 have advanced into the fourth round ahead of the rest of the field...
...Philadelphia. A great crowd flocked to the Academy of Music one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer...
Myra became a beautiful young woman, short, plump, like a dove in repose, in action very erect, vital, challenging. Her spirit and swift wit were of a sort that old John Driscoll could understand, "racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left his house, penniless, after two years of intense, secret waiting, to marry the man whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always...
...travelling from one place to another was done in a boat chartered by the party at Juneau, the capitol of Alaska, Glacier Bay with its unchartered rocks and shoals presents many problems to navigation. In addition, the tides, as great as 19 feet in places, create swift currents at the entrance of the various bays and fiords...
...malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery and into brawny thoraces; frost accumulates on silver buckets and shakers; glasses tink; bottles crash on skulls; one girl smokes cigars, nude; another refuses $100. After many sultry but incessantly swift, surprising events, involving a lot of good Mexican history and accurate swearing, Govett Bradier boards a tanker for the U. S., discouraged with the oil industry and possessed of the illuminating discoveries that all the women who ever appealed to him were alike; that none did him any good...