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Last week the Committee, having wrought havoc in the political firmament wrote its report. On the very day that the report was completed Senator La Follette again walked down the aisle. He held another piece of paper,, and he smiled as he raised his hand and said "Mr. President?...
...Yale has another star beside Captain O'Hearn, his firmament is the cage, Jenkins, the Blue goal-tend, has saved many a game for the Elis this year, and may still save many more. A good player in the forward line or on the defense can sometimes be dodged, but put him in the net, and he is always there. Beals and Hodder will have a hard time if they want to get the puck past his pads...
...chief political figures in the Anti's firmament were Senator Bayard of Delaware and Senator Bruce of Maryland, both Democrats, and Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, Republican. Besides the regular sessions of the Conference, there was a dinner at which Representative Hill toastmastered and the two Senators spoke, advocating modification of the Volstead Act to permit the Government, without the reincarnation of the saloon, to sell regulated amounts of alcoholic beverages for home consumption (a system similar to that in force in various parts of Canada...
Fashion Row. By a clever manipulation of wigs, Mae Murray contrives to do a successful sister act. As her older sister, she is a Russian immigrant in New York who rises to the brilliant dignity of a star in the local theatrical firmament and marries into a Mayflower family. All this under the pretense that she is a princess. Discarding the black wig and the tragedy manner, she again arrives in New York? this time as her younger sister? wide-eyed and penniless. On the same boat is an oily anarchist who discovers the interlocking relationships, gets them all together...
...respect to this even distribution of the scoring power that the Tiger combination excels. Although Princeton's hill and dale firmament is starless, it comprises a wealth of profitable runners. Against M. I. T., for example, the Orange and Black took second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh places. With such contestants in the field, therefore, it appears that the outcome will probably be decided in the lower places, even though Watters, Cutcheon, and Treadwell may turn in some brilliant performances...