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...with antelope, deer and elk, they reached the trappers' legendary Roche Jaune River (Yellowstone). Then came the Milk, the Judith, which Clark named for his future wife, and the Marias, which Lewis named "in honour of Miss Maria W-d." though "the hue of the waters ... but illy comport with the pure celestial virtues and amiable qualifications of that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled two guns. The party was almost sunk by rapids...
...advice to 1946 interspersed with humorous references to former Freshmen who had been in their position in previous years. He emphasized that Freshmen in Harvard College are never babied or pampered, but are treated and taken "just as seriously as Seniors." Part of the Harvard tradition requires that Freshmen comport themselves in as adult a fashion as first-year men in Oxford or Cambridge, and there is no system of hazing here as there is at many other American universities...
...many people sang with the Minister. But there were also hisses, and a sabre-scarred German in civilian clothes protested to the Minister that the song was anti-German. The Minister replied that he liked the song, that Bulgaria was neutral, and that he would comport himself as he pleased. Thereupon the German threw a champagne bottle at the Minister who, in warding it off, got a six-inch bruise in his forearm. The Minister promptly socked the German in the face, knocking him down. It was the Minister's third personal café tangle with the Axis since...
...Laura Elizabeth Richards, directed by David Butler, Captain January belongs to a special class of cinema. Neither epic, romance nor extravaganza, it is designed solely as its star's vehicle. The screen play by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend is pleasantly salty and the supporting players comport themselves as expertly as usual. As an item of entertainment, however, the value of Captain January depends entirely upon the fact that Shirley Temple appears in almost every sequence, grinning, sobbing, dancing, singing, wriggling, pattering down stairs or spitting on her pinafore, as the scenario requires...
...leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds. But he knows what M. F. H.'s like and how ordinary foxcatchers should comport themselves. Points and excerpts from his primer...