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...flourish, a bow, and the hat is swept on again. A cool survey of the arena, and the hero steps jauntily towards his victim. He arranges his muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty...
Edward of Wales: "In Paris, I visited an American dance cabaret. Despatches stated that I stepped out on the dance floor immediately and did fancy steps with Mrs. Bate [wife of one of the U. S. unofficial observers to the Reparations Commission] for 25 minutes straight, without rest,' that I requested favorite numbers including Some Sunny Day and You Gotta Kiss Mamma Every Night or You Can't Kiss Mamma at All. It was also reported that I am growing a tiny mustache...
Dunkards were originally a cele-bate order whose membership ate meat only once a year and held property in common. The rules hare now been abandoned in the states where they are strongest, Texas and Tennessee. There are now 100,000 Dunkards. They may marry...
...officiate. Mr. Homer Albero, dean of the Boston University Law School; Mr. James E. Downey, headmaster of the Boston High School of Commerce, and Mr. George Howland Cox, vice-president of the Cambridge Trust Company, have agreed to act as judges for the contest here. Tickets for the de- bate are now on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's or can be obtained at the door for 35 cents each...
...University of Paris has just awarded a prize to the legal treatise of Lindell T. Bates, written in French, on the conflict of American treaties and state laws. This is the first time in years that a foreigner has received this scholastic honor from France. It is a recognition that when the era of treaty revision begins after the war foreign countries will look toward this work as an authoritative source of information on American treaty law. It will take rank in foreign international law circles with a celebrated one written some years ago by a Rumanian on the Danube...