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...dressed in his black robes of state, trimmed with gold, and wearing the famous Chain of Esses (bequeathed in 1567 by ex-Lord Mayor Sir John Alen to the then Lord Mayor and his successors to "use and occupie yerely at and uppon principall and festival dayes"), Sir Alfred Bower, member of the Vintners' Company (14th Vintner to be elected Lord Mayor), athlete and bicyclist, rode in state from the Guildhall* to the Law Courts to be sworn in as Lord Mayor of London...
Three Weeks. The producers have done much better by Mrs. Glyn than she has deserved. They have not only featured the tiger skin on which the Queen (Aileen Pringle) does her notorious vamping of the innocent young man (Conrad Nagel), but, they have added a seductive bower of roses for good measure. Abraham Lincoln summed up this sort of product when he said of a book of poems: "For the kind of person who likes this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing that he will like...
...James, Bower Crumbacher '18, of Independence, lowa...
...over the second base. In the second, Caswell singled to center field, and Robertson followed suit, both advancing on Grundman's sacrifice bunt, Lincoln to Owen, and crossing the plate on Goode's wild pitch. Browne sent the ball far past. Jahin for three bases; Ross received a pass; Bower also walked, filling the bases. Kopf hit over Emmons, playing close, and Browne and Ross scored. Maynard brought in Bower's run with a single past second. Then Russell went on to the University mound, and struck out Merritt. Kopf having been previously, retired on second, this ended Dartmouth...
Horse.--Won by Bower, M. I. T.; Cooper, Princeton, second; Russell, Princeton, third...