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...Caesar, Mr. Thaddeus presents the following picture: "Sword in one hand, the incendiary torch in the other, he strides across Gaul, his thin-lipped mouth twisted into a smile as the eagles of his legions scream false promises to the natives.... But legend has chosen to whitewash the tawdry walls of Rome, so that it is Caesar, the far seeing statesman, rather than Caesar the bandit-adventurer, who is in the habit of stepping forward immaculate to take curtain calls as one of history's heroes and supermen...
...there will be music In the courtyard of the Fogg Museum by members of the Harvard Glee Club. The program which they will render at the informal concert at 9.15 o'clock will be the following: O Sacrum Convivium Viadana My Bonny Lass Morley Christmas Song Holst Bring a Torch Old Carol Morning Hymn Krug Der Gang zum Liebchen Brahms Les Anges dans nos Campagnes Old Carol Ave Verum Des Pres Choeur de Chameliers Franck
...police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense...
...landslide filled his return to the mouth. After that he wandered for six days, drank the water of a little ebony river, beat away the attacks of two small, ferocious and invisible animals, peered at rough, curious arches that swung and loomed in the waving of his torch, reached a hitherto unknown exit after wandering 70 miles through dark and crusted corridors...
...moments o the change in weather conditions of New England since that time, John continued his story. "After working around the Yard for a few years, I was given the job of lighting the Yard lights. I used to carry a bottle of bensine and a torch around with me every night, and fill and light each lamp separately. Sometimes the wind would blow them out as fast as I could light them, and then I'd have o start all over again...