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...minutes after the start at Krum Elbow that the Washingtonian boat reached the other end of the three-mile course, two lengths in front of Wisconsin and three and a half lengths ahead of Cornell. At no time during the race was there the slightest doubt but that the crew from Washington would...
...before the war are probably clarified as "old," we believe has written a book. All our young college graduates do that, "Such is the richness of our literature. Our Manhattan producer has thrown the light of genius on "the Boston aristocracy." That caste has so little breathing since and elbow room in a Celtic Jewish-Italian-Greek town that the sympathetic sociologists may deem it worthier of encouragement than of dispraise; but youth is intolerant. Our satirist seeks to show, or "show up," the life of a youthful patrician from birth to Class...
...anything else I ever did! They think I can't do it!" The evening before the National Committee met, the New Yorkers had dinner at the Shoreham Hotel. Swope sat with Charles Michelson, Charles S. Hand and John J. Leary, three of the World's ablest correspondents, at his elbow. Every few minutes he would turn to one or another of these correspondents : "Hand?call up New Hampshire!?[the New Hampshire National Committeemen]. Find out how they are going to vote!" A few minutes later the correspondent would come back, often with an unfavorable report. Swope was active among...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?A play of the American Revolution by George Bernard Shaw. For two acts he writes as though George M. Cohan were at his very elbow. Then he settles down to satire, and laughter supplants the thunder of the melodrummer...
James K. Hackett, actor: " Golfing at Fontainebleau, I completely missed a ball, spun around several times, fell heavily on my right side, and broke my arm in two places above the elbow...