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...Excerpt: "Shall we follow the young couple [just graduated from the Commons] on their first summer's long honeymoon? Supreme happiness is theirs?young, strong, healthy, independent, free and in love! Each will receive daily their necessary rations. The whole country is before them. We can picture them wandering over hill and dale...
...less revealing than the story in Ecoutez-Moi, which detailed the crises in H. R. H.'s sex life, Liberty was certainly more polite. Typical excerpt...
...vitriolic colors and subjects of the Mexican painter, held his peace only out of loyalty to his alma mater. That Dartmouth did not want such reticent respect from her sons, however, became evident last June when the college published a booklet proudly describing and illustrating its new frescoes. Excerpt: "That the Orozco murals should arouse controversy was anticipated and desired. . . . Whatever may be the final judgment of time on the place of Orozco and these murals in the great tradition of art. the college generation which witnessed the creation of these frescoes had a rare and exciting privilege...
...Murphy cited noises and odors, described a chart kept by his butler of every howl, yelp and bark between June 25 and July 18. All that time, while Mr. Murphy was serving his own cocktails, answering his own doorbell, his butler was listening day and night, in the pantry. Excerpt from the butler's record of what the Hitchcock dogs were doing: June 25- 5:75 a. m. Bark-loud; 5:17 a. m. Howl- long; 5:59 a. m. Yelp-medium loud. Some days showed 16 entries. Wilbur K. Hitchcock was directed to appear in court Sept...
...magician, known in the music halls as Osiris, who deserted her. Her other husbands were Capt. Harry Sadler and George Livermore, both of whom had to divorce her. After the suicide of Artist Atkinson she appeared briefly in a melodrama based on her own career, and wrote her autobiography. Excerpt...