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...dormitory regime has finally become accepted as a public enterprise at the Weld Boat House, the Cambridge Bear Mountain. It is a great pleasure to see nude humanity sporting on the planks, drinking in the beauties of nature and life-restoring violet-rays. Perhaps, if we are patient, this custom, instead of remaining a bathing and boating performance, will become a real cult, boasting a single purpose and a single underlying philosophy. A few stray scholarships for Neufahrwasser Students might even catalyze the process...
...said that the present custom of stationing "side-boys" and a boatswain's mate to ''pipe the side" in the starboard accommodation ladder gangway, as part of the ceremony in formally receiving commissioned officers and distinguished civil officials, is a hangover from the time when ships had no accommodation ladders and guests reached the deck seated in a boatswain's chair attached to a whip. Orders to "walk away handsomely" on the whip were given through the boatswain's pipe (whistle...
...battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard. Back at Havana Mr. Hemingway posed happily beside his catch as it was hung on the custom house scales. The fish weighed 468 lb.. was 12 ft. 8 in. long. Not only was it the biggest marlin ever caught off the Cuban coast with rod and line* but neurotic Ernest Hemingway had fought the bucking sea bronco alone and without harness. Technically the only true swordfish...
...Superintendent Onderdonk, in effect: "I want you to work up a plan for air-conditioning the Tribune Tower. Find out all about it-what systems we might use, how much it would cost, how long it wrould take-everything. Yes, start in right now." That afternoon, as is his custom. Col. McCormick climbed into his old Rolls-Royce roadster and drove into town for a night's work, beginning with an editorial conference, where everyone talked about the weather. Next day the Tribune's biggest news story of the day swung down from an eight-column streamer...
...Harvard Commencement, officially opened by ancient custom by the blue-coated, top-hatted, be-sworded High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Alfred Emanuel Smith was given an LL. D. de gree. To rousing applause Citizen Smith was saluted by a class orator: "Te quoque, Alfrede praestantissime, felix ille miles, quamquam carmina de viis Novi Eboraci cantare non possumus . . . hand minus iuvat salutare...