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...fact. . . . Intoxicating liquor is liquor which contains such a proportion of alcohol that it will produce intoxication when imbibed in such quantities as it is practically possible for a man to drink. . . . Perhaps I might interpolate here that the intoxication in this law means what you and I ordinarily understand as average human beings by the word 'drunkenness...
...strangers, who have spent years in preparation to stake their reputations on the swing of a blade, should do the same? And the biting incident ended amicably. I believe, through the coolheadednes of a French referee. There are times when every athlete. revering to type-and no one can understand the experience so well as mother athlete himself; which is why I insist that too much emphasis has been laid on such reversions by the men-athletic audience...
...symbol of snowy limestone thrusting skyward for an eighth of a mile. He told how this shaft would be a habitation for the city's students, saying: "The building is to be a cathedral of learning, a great central symbol which makes the heart leap up and understand Pittsburgh. . . . The building and its contents will keep vivid the lives of those who have done good work for Pittsburgh; who, to some memorable degree, have produced music, for example, or built up industry, or extended our knowledge of truth, or interpreted the use and beauty of life or served...
...dancing were over. Everyone agreed. Now she is going to undertake to pass on her torch. She will open a school in Berlin for children - children of the masses only. She expects about 500 pupils. Some 22 years ago, Miss Duncan first danced in Berlin. The Kaiser did not understand her art. She went to France, looking for liberty. Through the War, she danced the Marseillaise; after the War, she decided that the Marseillaise was not free enough for her. Still seeking the authentic spirit of liberty, she went to Russia. There she danced the Internationale, to her final satisfaction...
...then explained that the Nihilist leaders had hired him to play his piccolo in their parade. Four dollars, he said, would buy his musical services but not his political principles, and he wanted the public to understand his feeling on the matter...