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...Harvard forwards and goal-guard Massey provided the entertainment throughout the evening. The M. I. T. team had little opportunity to wear itself out as the puck spent most of its time deep in the Engineers' territory. Massey won rounds of applause and laughter for his debonair but effective stops. In the first period he made 23, in the second 19, and in the third 8 for a total of 50. This is within ten of the Arena record...
...Have you ever noticed how Mrs. Wilson always managed to draw into the background a little and so give the impression that the President is perceptibly taller, which, of course, is not the case. . . . She was proud to be Mrs. Woodrow Wilson but she didn't want to wear the dome of the Capitol for a tiara...
...lady member of the Reichstag, of "playing petticoat politics" during the last Cabinet crisis. Retorted the good lady: "You will have to look elsewhere for the guilty parties, and to help your search I will inform you that bowing to the dictates of the present fashion I do not wear petticoats." Die Tageszeitung, reactionary Berlin journal, added ironically: "Every German politician knows that the Baroness wears trousers, not petticoats...
Florence Reed, actress: "To 'decide a wager,' I dressed up in the old woman make-up that I wear in The Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well...
Interference by the metropolitan press caused the "temporary postponement" of the first meeting of the Blue Shirt Club which was to have been held yesterday at 1.30 o'clock in the Randolph Hall Beakfast Room. It had originally been announced that all members of the University who wear or are interested in wearing blue shirts would meet at that time and organize...