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Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner. Done by Scottish Immigrant John Smibert, it shows a Royalist politician whose bland, irresolute features bode ill for his future fame. After Wanton became Governor of Rhode Island, he fought with soft talk the stirrings of the American Revolution, and retired the moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became...
...lands. He gathers the braw clansmen about him i' a unco handsome scene, verra probably set on the only cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten...
...eleven-member committee of presidents included the heads of institutions more noted for their athletic prowess than for perhaps anything else--colleges such as Notre Dame, Michigan State, and Southern Methodist--and this seems to bode well for a general awakening to the dangers of professionalism in college sports. The program the committee adopted was a generally good one. Some of the six points, such as abolition of out-of-season practice and limitation on the kind of financial aid that can be given to students who are also varsity athletes, may limit legitimate and desirable practices, but the principles...
...shenanigans of the power-hungry Perons bode ill for the whole world. Curtailment of common liberties in Argentina is like the proverbial rock tossed into the millpond. First a great splash, then the seemingly never-ending ripples which go on & on, just as the evil created by Peron will go on & on and find its mark in the gullibility of "follow-the-leader" people all over the universe...
vard's eight goals. But the Princeton squad was largely a sophomore squad, and they may bode ill for Harvard in the next two years...