Word: agleying
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Despite his team's edge on paper, James MacDonald went along with his deceased countryman Robert Burns's observation that the best laid schemes o' mice an' men aft gang agley. "Comparative scores in soccer mean little," Mac-ventured yesterday, "adding that in the Yale game they mean nothing...
...wealthy widow named Clara Adams, famed in airline circles as an inveterate first-nighter, saw her chance. When Pan American's Dixie Clipper soared away from Port Washington, L. I. on its first transatlantic passenger flight, Mrs. Adams took her seat. In Marseille her plans nearly went agley. Fellow-tripper Julius Rappaport of Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic maharajah into posing with her for a snapshot...
...marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone but Helen's younger sister, 15-year-old Sisi. Sisi was a tomboy, but so pretty she made Helen appear a gawk. Franzi fell in love with her at sight, and for keeps. The scheming mothers...
...been known to create clever choral monstrosities. With the above ingredients, tempered by a dash of Glenda Farrell, we have "Caliente" which aims to be a heady cinematic cocktail; it should be no shock to learn that like mice and men, movie magnates are also visited by the ganging agley of plans. In short: "Caliente" misses fire...
...Arbor, Mich, restless with the knowledge that something is agley in undergraduatedom, President Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan University called to him Robert C. Angell of the Sociology Department. He sent Dr. Angell on a quest. Last week Dr. Angell returned, after talking with many another uneasy educator, and many young men and women, earnest no end and either utterly complacent or badly worried over themselves. Dr. Angell wrote a report: "College is no longer a place for those who wish to become cultured. It is a social prac- tice ground. Men and women come here to make friends...