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Rodolph Valentino, subsidized by the company that manufactures Mineralava Beauty Clay and chaperoned by his wife, is touring the country " in search of the girl with the most radiant complexion...
...Germans murdered two men near the town of Buer, and the French retaliated by killing eight and wounding thirteen. This alters the complexion of affairs. Germany has nothing to gain by murder. Her burden may be heavy and the way difficult, but sanguinary tactics are suicidal. France, on the other hand, will succeed in completely alienating foreign sympathy if she allows the present situation to develop. Moreover, " killings" give the Germans an opportunity of doing homage to their martyred countrymen...
...negotiated under the direction of a Democrat while the Republicans were in control of the Senate. The opposition it encountered was therefore such as the world, could conceive of and understand. But the Four-Power Treaty was negotiated by a commission which not only fairly reflected the party complexion of the Senate but included the two men who stood out as the leaders of the opposing parties in that chamber. Never was a treaty signed by us with brighter prospects of immediate ratification. If in spite of all this a reservation is now adopted, the world may conclude, with sufficient...
...point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion more completely than such a gigantic instrument would reveal the face of our mysterious relative. No sewing circle, tearing asunder some absent member, can compare with our astronomical gossips, gathered round observatory table, as they gloat over ever wrinkle and mole which the telescope reveals. What wonder, therefore, that...
...crudity of this blunder must be twice as obvious to the learned gentlemen who committed it: Why did they do it? Sympathy for Ireland may have prejudiced some Senators, but for the most part we fear there was another motive. Pressure from constituencies of Irish complexion must have drive these men to lose sight of national interests in personal ones. C. E. WORKS 1L. V. E. MACY, JR. '20. C. R. STEEDMAN...