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Enter the Communists. Once a year, Trasteverini hold a Procession of the Madonna del Carmine; they have added to it an additional celebration called the Festa de Nojantri (The Feast of Us Others). Together the two occasions are good for at least two weeks of sports, drinking, feasting, beauty and wine-tippling contests, and a lively spate of knife fights...
...Trasteverini could remember few finer fiestas. Only the Communists still grumbled dourly that they could have done it better. At Romolo's wineshop, a Communist stronghold, the potbellied Cricket argued sharply with the Poppy, a Red. The Poppy had just remarked snidely: "Someone is getting fat from the festa this year." "Had you your way," said the Cricket, "the walls would have been plastered with newspapers, the Madonna would have been ashamed to show herself in your presence, and the Bersaglieri would have stayed where they were...
...Meat? Is today a festa...
...Wadsworth, all of football game. Lindley looks like a sure bet for second base, though the position is being strongly contested by Kai Kee, the Chinese star who substituted for him last spring, and Melsrea from the Freshmen. Shortstop is being disputed between Ewing, last year's regular, and Festa, who was decisred ineligible for the 1927 Freshman team in mid-season last year...
HARVARD 1927 YALE 1927 Durant l.f. s.s. Festa Bennett c.f. 3b. McLaren Zarakov 3b. 8b. Coleman Howard ss. r.f. Noble Ullman 2b. 1b. Kline Toban 1b. l.f. Cushing deBecker r.f. c.f. Moran Duchin c. c. Walker Booth p. p. Burnell HARVARD SECONDS YALE SECONDS Rice 3b. l.f. Faust Amaden c.f. 3b. Lackey Field 1b. r.f. Suisman Maher c. c.f. Giblin Keene s.s. 1b. Trepel Chase or Pratt l.f. 3b. Kaikee Donaldson r.f. s.s. Jenkins Mann or Gardner 3b. c. Lovejoy Puffer p. p. Coxe...