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...Cruikshank, Aiken, and Leech; M. J. Swanson paid $190 for a book on corpulency by one William Wadd, which contains an autograph of Daniel Lambert (his weight was 739 pounds); Maurice Hoog, dealer, paid $1,800 for a collection of 1,200 engraved trade-cards and billheads of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries...
...eighteenth century musical taste, to one who cares for melody and expressiveness of phrase, the Haydn Symphony to be played tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock will be irresistible. It was this symphony which marked the end of Haydn's stay in England; after it was played at the Hanover Square Rooms, his triumph was complete. M. Koussevitzky will please the lover of rhythm, and of another century too, tonight, when he conducts the "Pini Di Roma" of Respighi. I shall Union. It has always been my opinion that the Everest climbers were our modern seekers...
...eighteenth century, when a novel appeared, the public used to spend about two months reading it. When the good people of Amesbury-on-the-Tyne, or some other center of learning had finally turned the last page of Richardson's tale, they would ring the village bell to celebrate the tidings that Pamela retained her virtue...
...Americans to go to church because they had to; it is equally ridiculous to look for good in a man's not drinking because he cannot. Connecticut, whatever its faults, never has and, God willing, never will ratify that impediment to the country's ambitions to be civilized, the Eighteenth amendment...
...Some of them were thinking about the World Court, and some about the Republican administration and some about the new tax bill. Those who liked all these things, lost; and those who did not, won. The score was 41-39. Then the Senators put their well-worn, eighteenth-century, uniforms of strict constructionists and loose constructionists away, where they may be ready to hand for the next sham battle--Constitutionally speaking...