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...pastime and laughingly take six or seven baths while she was reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would it avail to crawl out the window, or ring the fire alarm, or pretend to drown in the tub. But now, by a system of secret signals, the distressed Innocent calls another member of the club, who enters with a shot gun or a new Vanity Fair. If with the former, the goody...
Both views are at once right and wrong. Ideally, of course, Harvard should be a place where men eager and even determined to acquire knowledge and wisdom are brought into personal contact with teachers eager to instruct and determined to avail themselves of every art to stimulate and aid the intellectual advancement of individual students...
...Geer was in the garage for fully 45' minutes after losing consciousness. The garage doors appeared to have been blown shut by the wind. When taken from his home near Belmont to the hospital, he had resumed breathing, but all attempts to restore him to consciousness were of no avail...
...Senate. The rules of both Houses admit to the privileges of the floor, members, ex-members, the Governors of states. So it happens that Representative Mae E. Nolan, ex-Representative Alice M. Robertson, Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming appeared. Mrs. Ross was the first woman Governor to avail herself of her privilege...
...exceedingly doubtful if this attempt will be of much avail since the new play drags interminably. It is fairly well played by McKay Morris as Holofernes, and rather badly played by Julia Hoyt, who was somewhat recklessly given the part of Judith...