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Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen. The story follows Sabatini's novel closely enough-the stroller-swordsman hero (Ramon Navarro) is dashingly effective-the scenes of the storming of the royal palace are incredibly exciting-the Danton of George Siegmann presents, for once, a hero rather than a ranter...
...planned to demolish the old bridge a section at a time, laying the foundations for the new structure in correspondingly short stretches. Three huge pile-drivers will be used in this work. It will require several months. The new bridge will not be ready for use before the football season next fall, and as the temporary footbridge is only eight feet wide, the accommodation of the crowds at the spring track meets and baseball games will involve considerable difficulty...
...this time, when it seems to be the fad of every one who talks, writes, or plays football, to reiterate the statement that legislation must in some way demolish the wedge, it seems only fair that the other side of the question should be heard, and, particularly, that any legislation should be neither hasty nor ill-considered. I am one of those quite ready to admit that the further development of wedge and mass plays would be detrimental to the interests of both players and spectators. A suggestion has been made that the wedge be permitted only inside the twenty...
...order to make room for the new library, it was necessary to demolish the old building on the campus-the chemical laboratory...
...account of the game in the Crimson said: "The Harvard nine found it impossible to bat Lamb's pitching, which was remarkably fine, while the Yale men batted Cruger with comparative ease." The Yale freshmen were jubilant, in the Yale sense of the word. After their nine had again demolished the Harvard freshmen, and of course there was no doubt of that, they proposed to challenge the Harvard University nine and demolish them. The day for the second game dawned bright and clear*, and the Yale nine arrived accompanied by a noisy crowd of demonstrative blue handkerchiefs. The result...