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...Morgan standing in front of a Rolls-Royce show window might remove his silk hat, scratch his head and ask with perfect reason: "Shall I buy one? Shall I buy ten? Shall I buy twelve?" A beggar standing in the same place and seriously making the same inquiry might very properly be arrested for insanity. Yet the difference between the two would be a mere matter of purse...
Every spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to throwing paper, matches, and electric light bulbs out the window. As the game progresses details are added. Trying to break the lights on the opposite side of the Oval with a piece of kindling wood or a bottle is an absorbing pastime. It is a huge joke on the janitors. If one can drop a chair on a campus policeman it counts six, a chair and a book-case eight, and the joke is on the policeman. Setting fire to the round-house wins the game. Thus all the teeming...
...King's Chapel, Boston. The program is as follows: Toceata in F Bach Invocation Adagio, Intermezzo, Sixth Symphony Widor Andante Maestoso, Allegro Risoluto, Sonata in C Minor Salome Reverie Bonnet Scripture Lesson Scherzo, Second Symphony Vierne Choral-Prelude on the Welsh tune, "Rhossymedre" ("Lovely") Vaughn-Williams Rosace (Rose-window) Mulet Finale Franch
...most violent opinions are expressed with such a twinkle in her eye, that you have the impression that if you were suddenly to defend an opinion very seriously, she would laugh you straight out the open window...
...Reichstag member became angry, but started to move the bags and in so doing, broke one of the carriage windows. Then he cried for the conductor, said one of the ladies had pushed him, causing him to break the window. The ladies denied this...