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Novae are stars which, in making some obscure internal adjustment, flare up suddenly from sub-visibility, shine brilliantly for days, weeks or months, subside at last into their former faintness. Conspicuous as any stars in the sky at the peak of their display, they are spectacular but not rare, for nearly 40 have been observed since 1900. But the universe has superlatives. Once in a while a super-nova emerges grandiosely on the cosmic stage...
...scolded-did events seem to call for it-with no sense of impropriety or bad manners. He might even register as much impatience as Lord Bessborough did, without a national crisis being the result. . . . Lord Bessborough may well have made history both for himself and Canada by his little flare-up at Toronto...
Back in Zenith he tells his married daughter that Fran ran the house better than she. He returns to Europe to find his wife slipping from the arms of a sleek diplomat into those of an Austrian blue-blood whom, in a flare of temper, she determines to marry. Wandering around Italy waiting for his divorce, Sam finds a woman with whom he is happy (Mrs. Walter Huston). Fran's romance crashes and she calls him back, but Sam gets off the boat in time...
After their football team had beaten Phillips Andover for the third successive year, the boys of Phillips Exeter Academy one Saturday night last month trundled out their Chariot of Victory, went prancing and cavorting through the flare-lit streets of Exeter, N. H. Atop the chariot, a haywagon which three years ago replaced a famed old coach, perched the Exeter team. A bonfire blazed on the playing field and the chapel bell tolled madly until after midnight...
...week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...