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...that the game was clean. The record of practices inflicted during the game is the only record of a referee worthy of consideration. Until the entire matter is definitely closed it is the province of the newspaper, no less the Crimson, to print charges and rebuttals even when they betray a lack of intelligence and good taste...
...other current Pirandello play, Naked, might lead theatregoers to suppose that this one from the same pen is also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly. For this Pirandello play is broad. Sea Captain Petella, a blustering fellow, who returns to his wife once every three months or so, absolutely refuses to do his natural duty as a husband. He wants no more children. Professor Paolina assumes...
...Half of Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa men this year are Jews-five of the eight juniors elected, and a large portion of the 22 seniors. Despite the snobbish evidences of class prejudice which, at such racially-tinged colleges as Harvard, as once at Columbia, the Nordic students betray toward their cleverer competitors such men as Bleiweiss, Stamm, Bernstein, Sobell, Isaacs, Swirske, Abrahams and Solomon, won their places by merit...
...Herr President was likewise gladdened to receive from Oriental couriers a picture framed in solid gold encrusted with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil...
...debonair, his ruthlessness so discriminating, that the Latin citizenry of New Orleans around 1800 could not take offense when he came boldly ashore to do business with them and dance with their daughters to the wailing guitar. In 1812 the British tried to buy him up to betray his favorite port. He pondered. He was Jean Lafitte, outlaw. The northern barbarians who ran the country of which New Orleans was but an exotic new part, had set a price on his head. Nevertheless, honor told him that his hosts' friends were his friends. He fought under Old Hickory...