Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe had finished with each other, the celebrants moved en masse to the Hotel Peabody, a copy of which graces every U. S. town. Unhappily, the opening of the new Egyptian Nile Club on the roof had to be postponed...
...said he had started reading a serial in the Saturday Evening Post while he was en route home and wanted to finish it right away. It was E. Phillips Oppenheim's story, The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent. This morning ... he asked me to have the publishers send him the concluding chapters tomorrow. I told him that could not be arranged and he grumbled...
...quite different sort is Ruben Dario's vividly descriptive "Sonfonia en Gris Mayor" (Symphony in Gray). In this is given a very real picture of the sea on a glassy calm day and of an old salt who sits at the sea's edge endlessly watching. Again, to show his versatile nature, Dario has written a poem called "Friso" (Frieze). Here classical images and classical scenes are handled in a manner reminiscent of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Some of the best poems in the collection are by Ruben Dario...
...Manhattan, en route to Italy, arrived Very Rev. Gaetano Cicognani, Roman Catholic archbishop and papal nuncio to Peru. He went to Washington to visit his brother the Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, whom he had not seen in seven years...
...matter which should be as simple as the shooting of a couple of mad dogs involves the constant bombast of attorneys, the endless slush of newspaper columns, and the preparing of a jury for its labors by taking it en bloc to a baseball game...