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...window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor's writings and put them back into the ebony...
...increased budget for the Union library is gratifying, for the combination to be found there of a complete collection of books at one elbow and an ash tray at the other is as much an aid to civilized study as the restaurant may be to meals...
...gown and lace mantilla, the Mayor was received by Pope Pius XI at Rome. The Mayor soon emerged from his private audience and said to reporters: "The Holy Father put me at my ease at once. He treated me as if he were my father indeed. He rested his elbow on the large table between us and spoke to me in soft paternal tones. So I rested my elbow on the table also and answered without fear or re-straint." The truth of the Mayor's description became more and more obvious as bits of the conversation were related...
Sirs: The following are extracts from newspaper accounts of the golf classic played at the Oakmont Country Club course this week. . . . "As Armour was about to drive, a woman spectator started one of those noisy motion picture cameras buzzing at his elbow. Tommy stopped his swing at the top . . . asked the woman to observe golfing etiquette . . . but the damage had been done. . . ." "Emmet French put off his funeral until the 15th hole . . . just as he was about to approach, one of those diabolical movie cameras in the hands of some female started to reel . . . his spirit was broken. . . ." Perhaps...
Died. James ("Jimmy") Delaney,* 25, light heavyweight boxer; of blood poisoning resulting from a fight with Maxie Rosenbloom, in which a bone in his left elbow was splintered; in Minneapolis. "Jimmy" took part in 67 major bouts, won 29 including 19 knockouts, lost 9; 29 had no decision...