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...torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there is a red in her lips, a sparkle in her eyes, and her breath is as sweet as the breath of an old mooly cow. She holds her latest baby under the crook of her arm, and hustles along.--Quoted by Dean Mendell in an address printed in the Yale Alumni Weekly...
...Vivaldi concerto for four violins, a piece seldom given, will be included in the program. The harpsicord will be played by H. C. Crook '34. R. U. Jameson '32, president of the Sodality, will play as a solo, a concerto for the violin-cello by John Braun (1753-95). This composition which has probably never been heard in Boston concerts, was obtained from the library of Professor G. B. Weston...
Willie Johnson, 18, got Ruby Crook, 17, in trouble. The Crooks, finding Ruby pregnant, sent her away, promised "to take care of the Johnsons." While the rest of the community was attending services at the New Salem Baptist Church, on the border of Clay and Laurel Counties, the families met in the church yard. The Crooks "took care" of three Johnsons. The Johnsons "took care" of two Crooks. Willie Johnson survived with a slug...
...arrogance in any less intelligent director, are pleased by his intuitive appreciation. Saturated in the cinema, Lubitsch diverts himself, when not making real pictures, by making a cast out of his friends, his servants, the people who pass him on the street. "Ach," he says, "you are a crook. No, you are head of a gang of blackmailers. . . . You know everything, everybody." Pleased at his prowess in such conceits, he assumes a wise expression and rolls his eyes ? the cameras for an endless hypothetical scenario...
Ever since a Scotch shepherd took it into his head to knock a pebble into a crevice with his crook, golfers have been eager to improve their implements. They had reason to feel pleased last week when the U. S. Golf Association, meeting in Manhattan, sanctioned two-piece golf clubs with readily mountable shafts which can be screwed out of one clubhead and into another at a moment's notice.* Brought out by Donaldson Manufacturing Co. of Glasgow, such clubs make it possible to play without a caddy, by carrying one shaft and a small container of clubheads. Practically...