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...titles of the poems are "Hymn to the Deathless," "The Dying Man at Marib," "Dying Man To His Soul," "Interlude," "Nenette Dances," "The City," "Ballade of the Garland," "The Wrestlers," "Necromancy," and "Burnt Musk and Balsam...
...darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves and snatched at the fruit. This fantastical mirth was called Snap-dragon.' "STEELE, Toiler...
...course the most outstanding and unfortunate event of the season", said George Owen. Captain of the University hockey team in 1922 and 1923, when interviewed by a Crimson reporter yesterday, "is the fact that the Yale Arena burnt down last year, which will rather hurt Yale's chances. This is not only most unfortunate for Yale but for us too. However, we still must look forward to some pretty stiff competition from Princeton...
...said. Health authorities acted. The Mexican Quarter was tightly quarantined. None were allowed passage through its streets, even in automobiles. None were allowed egress from the district except a few industrial workers with special permits. Food was delivered but no garbage or milk containers taken out. The dead were burnt at once. Those ministering to the pestilence-stricken went in and out wearing a sterilized habit, their faces masked. Doctors stated that a pneumonic rather than a bubonic germ was responsible for the disease, but awaited a final diagnosis. Deaths, which numbered 21 in 15 days, went on mounting...
Died. Lew Dockstader (George Alfred Clapp), 68, blackface comedian; in Manhattan, from a bone tumor on his leg resulting from a fall. On the vaudeville stage for over 50 years, Mr. Dockstader's most famed performance was an act in which he appeared, with burnt cork on his face, accoutred in every detail, even to teeth, as President Roosevelt in Rough Rider's costume. His mere entrance brought a roar of laughter...