Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris last week the priest of the Chapel of St. Christophe, went out on the chapel porch and blessed the array of private motor cars, taxicabs, trucks, motor cycles, bicycles, wagons, drays, trundle-carts waiting there. It was the day of St. Christophe, whose relics are in the chapel. According to legend St. Christophe carried Jesus on his shoulders and has been designated patron saint of travelers and vehicles...
...passed their twenty-first and are waiting for their twenty-third birthday. Thirteen are married--a number which, though connotative to the minds of the superstitious, is far from surprisingly large. Lastly some 36 members of the class were born in foreign lands. The number seems large and the array of countries represented is imposing, but, on the other hand, half the class comes from Massachusetts and the greater part of these from Boston and its immediate vicinity...
Namiko San, a Japanese opera with libretto and music by Aldo Franchetti, features Tamaki Miura, Japanese soprano. Little Mme. Miura's fingers are like daisy petals in careful array. Her voice carries a suggestion of tartness. Her movements are all nicely studied. Her role is that of a 16-year-old maiden of ancient Japanese legend, in love with a Buddhist monk from the white mountain tops, possessed by a tyrannous Daimio, lord of the low, broad acres...
EAST INDIA AND COMPANY?Paul Morand?A. & C.Boni ($2.50). Perhaps when a Parisian sophisticate visits the Orient he is able to discover there an array of feminine beauty equal to that discovered in Paris, and an aroma of sophistication as pungently delicate as that with which he perfumes his handkerchiefs and his prose. If this is true, the short stories in this book are more than infinitely trivial, infinitely graceful potboilers...
...faculties which produce these announcements that bring such joy to the hearts of collar manufacturers and movie stars. At any rate they are the vogue in many places, including, Princeton. And although Harvard possesses no superlatives of its own it has managed this year to receive mention in the array of immortals; for is it not ranked by the discerning Princeton seniors as the third of the favorites women's college? Such popularity must be deserved...