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...June 2.--"It was an ordinary 'Bottle Night' for the Freshmen," said Dean Walden of the Yale class of 1928 in commenting on the informal Freshman celebration Sunday. "The uproar that the class of 1928 made Saturday night has been grossly exaggerated in some of the printed stories. They threw some things from their windows, largely glass and crockery, but the damage was slight. Their worst disorder was to start a bonfire. We of Yale live in a city and bonfires should not be started...
...Maria Jeritza declared that Tenor Piccaver, with whom she had been singing in Cavallcria Ritsticana, had sabotaged her success, stolen her thunder, seduced her applause, refused to throw her down as his role demanded. Vienna papers recalled what had happened to Maria Jeritza when another embattled tenor, Beniamino Gigli, threw her, as his role did not demand, into the footlights of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME. Feb. 9). That such another fall, the traditional corollary of pride, might not misbecome the famed soprano, was also suggested by the press, which commented unfavorably on her irritability. In London, Covent Garden...
...nine children of a jeweler of Alencon, a provincial town to the south of Lisieux. At the age of 16 -that was in 1889 -she decided to join the Carmelite Order, but was rejected because of her extreme youth. Taken on a visit to Rome, she threw herself at the feet of Pope Leo XIII, "the greatest of modern Popes," imploring him to sweep away the barriers which prevented her becoming...
...Shock Punch. The unaccountable disinclination of a young lady of "society" to marry a prize fighter twisted this hero's life all out of shape. It pretty well interrupted the plot of the cinema and threw the action up on the bony heights of a rising skyscraper. From there followed reels reminiscent of Harold Lloyd's Safety Last-a considerable amount of entertainment. Of course the prize fighter wasn't really a prize fighter, nor was he an iron worker on the dizzy girders. He was a millionaire in disguise. But a millionaire can fall...
...terms as member of Congress he was nominated in the 1896 Democratic Convention for President. Like the late Theodore Roosvelt, Mr. Bryan raised a regiment of volunteers to serve in the Spanish War, and took the part of colonel. After being twice again nominated by his party he threw all his influence to Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 convention, securing the nomination of the latter over "Champ" Clark. As a reward for this service the "Great Commoner" was given the post of Secretary of State in Wilson's cabinet where he served for three years...