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...visited the English universities," said the Countess, "but I have had no opportunity of coming in contact with the American college boy. In France we know Boston as a big University town and a historical ground. As I came into Boston tonight. I saw the Bunker Hill monument all aglow, and I remembered my ancestor Lafayette who helped lay its corner stone. I am very glad to be here...
...businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the Peter Pan of Princeton, was, of course, toastmaster. Down the majestic stairway, slowly into the room came Vincent Richards, star, "logical" successor...
...Then the hours, the final hours, that shall make incandescent this choral virtue, these songful freedoms, that musical understanding, such stir and mood already a-beat and aglow. Dr. Davison began them; Mr. Koussevitsky finished them. The audience sat in away and thrall to the power and the beauty so engendered...
Edward W. Bok, aglow with a poetic and moral enthusiasm for business, fairly slaps the young man on the back and says: " Character, my boy! Honesty is the best policy...
There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...