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Through the portals of the imposing Colonial structure, whose red brick walls, terraced cupola, and white cornices are in harmony with the architecture of the seven Houses, daily troop a legion of athletes from fields conveniently nearby; and while their equipment is repaired and scrubbed snow-white by a privately-owned laundry, their bruises and sprains are attended by a staff of trainers and doctors who know most of the boys by their first names, and are even more familiar with their injuries...
Swift did bear down on him, with cry to freeze hot blood, a gargantuan charger. Then ran he whirling like ye maddened dervish into the very centre of the fray. Ye blue clad referee soft reclining in the white cupola far cross the seething field, was Sir Vagabond's ultimate goal a stead-fast symbol of safety was this man. Steel clashed on steel, the horns of battle did boom out loud and clear, and the knight with heaving breath and Herculean effort did clear himself a breach across the way, did with uncertain step attain the white cupola...
Victory hungry Elis were forced into extreme action this week after visiting team upon visiting team had taken the toll of the dog-house dwelling Yale bulldogs. In fact the Yale News tells of five seniors who have vowed to brave the elements in the cupola on Davenport College until the Blue eleven has a taste of victory...
...went into the jute business, in Paterson, N. J. Proud of his British blood, Dr. Butler exclaims: "It has never been . . . possible for me . . . to be on ... British soil without a feeling of exaltation." When Dr. Butler was a few days old, his aunt carried him up to the cupola of his house with an American flag, a $10 gold piece and a Bible; there dedicated his life to patriotism, wealth and piety...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) exhibits the skyscraper profile of Basil Rathbone becomingly topped by the fore & aft cupola of fiction's most famed detective. Unlike his pipsqueak present-day imitators, who solve crimes while airing their wives' dogs, getting drunk or talking pidgin English, Sherlock Holmes was a literate patrician who always took his work seriously, permitting himself no distractions except an occasional shot of morphine when he was bored. For the Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel...