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...clock--Stadium Exercises; Ivy Oration, E. F. Clark '28; Cheering; Presentation of Class Banner to 1931; Singing; Confetti Battle...
...Tellegen* whom she married in 1916. When Mr. Gatti offered her a new contract, it was too late. She had already arranged a concert tour with Manager Charles Ellis of Boston. Never, they say at the Metropolitan, has any celebration rivaled that of Farrar's farewell performance. Flowers, confetti, streamers, tears?to Manhattanites she was "Gerry," a passionate, gay creature who always gave them their money's worth of excitement, and who'd sworn she would leave the opera when she was 40. She kept her word...
...were tremendous. Sometimes men grouped together, and on the shoulders of four husky men stood one light one, snatching enough flowers for all, while frantic classmates tackled the big men and yanked the small one's shirt from his back ... And now, in this soft age, men merely pelt confetti at their girls, and are pelted in return...
Nathan's Book* contains less extravagant, less ponderous chastisements of current idiocies. He flings confetti that has the effect of a sneezing powder, at "The New Morality", ("Back in the boll-weevil belt, there are, of course, married men who sleep with the family Bible in their undershirts"), "The American Emotion," ("The observer of the emotional reactions of the American people is brought to the lamentable conclusion that the stimuli which produce those reactions most magnificently show a constantly increasing cheapness and standardization"), "The Motherland," "American Criticism," "The Muse in Our Midst." Unlike Mr. Mencken, Author Nathan seldom sweats...
Another diversion - or dementia - on the part of the visiting Elks was scattering confetti on the populace below from hotel windows, and when the 'fetti ran out, so the story runs, hundreds of pillows were ripped open and the feathers were strewn "all over Creation and a part of Cincinnati...