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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty year is a respectable age; it demands either adequate recognition or honorable silence. But a Coney Island holiday lasting for months and drooling away into a hug loss for all concerned is an insult...
...first of all flyers to cross the Andes. -Not, however, Sergt. A. G. Elliott, who started from England with Pilot Gobham but died when a Bedouin rifleman, strolling on the bank of the Euphrates River, took a potshot "for sport" at the strange thing passing overhead. Not Sergeant Ward, either, who volunteered for Elliott's place and flew with Cobham from Arabia to Australia. It was one Captel, a mechanic who substituted for Ward in Australia for the flight home...
...University could take no sweeping action against the townspeople, it severely curbed the carnival aspirations of the students themselves, who probably contributed in no small measure to the cup of revelry. In 1722 there was a law prohibiting the students from preparing or providing either plum cake, or roasted, baked, or boiled meats, or pies of any kind, and from furnishing distilled liquors or any Composition made therewith upon pain of being fined 20 shillings, and the forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors." Evidently distilled liquors, or any Composition made therewith, were not considered...
...done up the previous evening by the coiffeuse, who had no other tine for that particular lady. Another writer on Commencement--one bitter toward the fop-pishdress--declares that a roomy family coach could carry but two ladies, one sitting forward and one backward, with their hoops protruding on either side...
...inconceivable that a government with a reputation to maintain should procrastinate as long as Mr. Baldwin's has, as it was early made clear that the coal strike was a matter for governmental intervention. With the alternative either of forcing owners to pay higher wages, or of lowering the pay of the miners, either to be accomplished with the aid of a gradually decreasing subsidy, the British government seems to be in almost as grave a position as the donkey which starved between two bales of hay. It is probable that there will be no starving in Great Britain this...