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Just as it is a bloomer to talk about the price of sea foods to a man whose wife has died of oyster ptomaine-a faux pas to discuss prohibition in a house recently disgraced by the tippling of its breadwinner-so it is a serious breach of taste to "speak of earthquakes in California. Ever since the geological disaster in San Francisco in 1906, all convulsions of the earth's crust have been referred to euphemistically; people do not say "since the earthquake" but "since the fire." What must be the courage, then, of Dr. Bailey Willis, seismologist...
There were several old players at the field including John K. Kilpatrick, Ralph Bloomer, Morris Ely, George Goss, Ted Lilley, Jack Field, "Cupie" Black., Eli Cutler and Dan Cook...
...Barrymore a glorious opportunity with which he did wonders, Wonders no more. We are sent home with disappointment and a happy ending. Miss Fenwick as Simonetta, charming and gracious though she be, is hopelessly miscast. She is too much the Anglo-Saxon, rather than Italian, nor does Raymend Bloomer, who takes the place of Ian Keith as Luigi, succeed altogether in convincing one of his powers as a cavalier...
...Sodality; Dexter Selden Paine '25 of Brookline; Lee Osher Combs '26 of Long Beach, California; Donald Coats Gates '26 of New York City; Robert Thornton Smith of Saco, Maine; Benjamin Brewster 2ES, of Dedham; John Warren Knedler Jr. '24 of Moscow, Pennsylvania; David Waller Bakeless '26 of Bloomer, Pennsylvania; and Randolph Piper, '27 of Lexington...
Roland Fleer '24 (H) lost to Bloomer (C) 3-5, and the Fuertes...