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...readable verses on occasions calling for patriotic tears or laughter has been the job of Britain's Poets Laureate ever since Dryden in 1670 was given that official title by Charles II, with a salary of ?300, a butt of Canary wine. Though the emolument has varied with the years (Tennyson's pay was cut by three-quarters) most royal rhymesters have risen to the occasion. Outstanding exception was Wordsworth, who never produced a line to order because the spirit never moved him at the right moment. One of the conscientious was Lord Tennyson who, according to Carlyle...
...serious side of life. Thanks to enterprising men on previous dance committees, Lowell House dances have established a reputation of being among the best in the College. Other pleasant social customs are the High Tables on every Monday night (when the High Table was first suggested it became the butt of many cartoons in the local publications; but now it is copied by every other House), the annual Lowell Birthday dinner, and the Spring party for the parents...
When the Bureau of Air Commerce was created in 1933 as a subdivision of the Department of Commerce, handsome Director Eugene Luther Vidal at once became the butt of incessant attacks. When the Bureau investigated crashes, he was accused of whitewashing his subordinates. When he devoted time to developing a "$700 plane" for private flyers, airlines screamed that he was neglecting them. When Bureau airway aids became outdated because the Government cut Bureau funds 40%, Gene Vidal got the blame. When Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in a crash. Senator Copeland's investigating committee recommended Gene Vidal...
...usual introspective way. She went to bed and slept as usual, rose as usual. Next day she casually told her mother what she had done. Her mother drove Dema Dunlap to Dr. Kosterlitz, who refused to believe the young woman's story until he saw the projecting butt of the spike. He rushed her to a hospital where he extracted the nail. Then she fainted. There was some chance for her recovery, for a person can live with a large part of his brain gone. In Harvard's anatomical museum is the skull of a man who lived...
...daily press, is a sad one. Mr. Burton testified that "his first intimation of how the picture looked came one day in October, 1934, he said, when at least fifty members of the Exchange met him upon his return from lunch, showed him the result, and made him the butt of ribald remarks and jibes. He was so offended, he testified, that he neglected his work for several days...