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...books returned as has been employed for decades in Washington. If a student happens to request a book charged to a faculty member, the library aids him in retrieving it by sending the professor a polite card requesting its return. Usually one card is enough, but the months often drag on while the coveted book lies dustily on the professor's book shelf. In the meantime, the undergraduate must either give up his search or read the work in its Greek translation...
...Dublin remembered 1926. That year the Abbey Theater produced O'Casey's since famed The Plough and the Stars, an irreverent treatment of the 1916 Irish revolution. It roused Irish fury to such patriotic heights that shrieking, whistling men and women stampeded for the stage to drag the actors off. Actor Barry Fitzgerald met the first charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers. It was caught and thrown back at Poet W. B. Yeats, a director of the Irish national theater, who was vainly...
...summary fashion, smacked the teaser and then the bait. Momentarily surprised, the Captain set down his bottle and shouted, "Give him plenty of line!" This I did, but the island-like serpent took all my new nylon line and all my backing, despite the fact that the star drag was full...
...oils for Christmas, was soon begging his mother to take him to the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art. There, she remembers, he showed a marked liking for Sisley and Cézanne, and adds: "Thierry also likes flower shops and jewelry stores. If I didn't drag him away, he would stand there for hours gazing at the displays." Thierry thinks painting as simple as his other enthusiasm, soccer. Says he: "I like colors and I like football. I paint the things as I see them. There is nothing to explain...
...varsity skaters seemed to drag themselves about the rink and only managed to get off six shots at the Eagle goalie in the first two stanas. The last minute goals actually were only surprising because of their lateness...