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...somehow, reminded one of an inferior dried fig;" "Benny Dodd's Adventure", with its O. Henry climax; "It!", full of pathetic, sodden shoes; and "Spring Scandal", peppered with potentially horrifying gossip such as, "That be a pore creature, the Queen o'Spain, Oi rackon. No flesh. No substance. No curl"--are pretty near perfection in their...
...have wasted better elsewhere--inventing epigrams! These related to a (with reservations) gentlemen from Amerongen. Their delicate spirit was imbued in such phrases as "Kan the Krazy Kaiser." And at the same time, several million doughboys were promising their Dulcineas a piece of that personage's ear, or a curl from his right moustache. Apparently oblivious of the blissful fact that the "glorious leadership" of this man was worth at least an army corps to the Allies...
...field, signal towers built of light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...
...Copeland will read from Dickens and Thackeray. The program will include the scene between Esmond and the Prince, that between Rawdon Crawley and Lord Steyne, a passage from "Nicholas Nickleby," one from "The Book of Snobs," and Mr. Pickwick's Adventure with the Lady of the Yellow Curl Papers. The reading will be open only to members of the University...
...been a good deal of hazing at Stalace College during the past winter. Bands of sophomores, stimulated by tea, had entered the rooms of freshwomen, and by confiscating their hairpins, compelling them to surrender any jam or peanuts brought by them from home, and in some instances removing curl papers and straightening the hair of the victims with mucilage, had created some little ill-feeling between the classes. With a view of removing this ill-feeling by substituting a legitimate "rush" for illegitimate "hazing," committees of freshwomen and sophomores arranged the great back-hair rush of last Monday afternoon...