Word: filles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Cerole Francais held last Thursday night P. H. Rhinelander '29 resigned from his position of secretary and treasurer and assumed the duties of the vice-presidency. No one has been elected as yet to fill the post left vacant by Rhinelander's resignation...
...West Point, detailed elsewhere in this issue, has always amazed civilians. The fact that the cadets rise at six in winter, at a little after five in summer, must be ready at any time for inspection, take military exercises in the afternoon, must be in bed at ten, must fill literally a thousand requirements--make the life hard. West Point takes justifiable pride for that. Exacting selection of men to enter the academy, sternest possible training after they enter, and ten weeks' freedom in four years' time--it brings to mind almost the mortification of the flesh by Christian monks...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
...Getchell, general manager of the H. A. A., announced last night that 1995 more applications had been received for the Dartmouth game than could be filled, this figure breaking the mark set up in the overapplication for the Army game by some 500. At the same time the Dartmouth Athletic Association was unable to fill 3500 extra applications...
...stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath, bereaved cattlemen still grumbled, but the disease was stamped...