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Representative Crisp: "A splendid message...
...Golden Whales of Southern California larruped and flapped their fins in the crisp surge sent against them by Washington State ?in vain, for four big breakers from the Washington backfield crashed over the tideline once, twice , , , Score: Washington State 17, Southern California...
...crisp Saturday afternoon in October, and we are among the thousands of spectators at an important college football game. "Wouldn't you like to be in there, George?" comes the question from a neighbor. "No, I would not," is the spontaneous reply. In view of the fact that I played college football for four years and was fortunate enough to be a member of winning teams, this may seem a strange answer; but it was the only honest answer I could give...
Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...symphonic poem, "Jurgen," which was given last week by the New York Symphony Society before an audience composed partly of admirers of Mr. Taylor, of modern music and of the Symphony Society, and partly of leering persons who, well knowing that the novel of James Branch Cabell is crisp with supposed "salaciousness," came in hope that the music would furnish sauce for the same salad. These last were disappointed. He has used the "Jurgen" legend merely as a pretext for the expression of certain emotions which might have been roused by the book or by some-thing else. The score...