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...Story. A little girl sat in the gallery at a Tetrazzini concert, her black pigtails rigid with excitement. The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile...
Grouse and Partridge flourish in most U. S. woods, which they fill with the muffled thunder of their wings. Grousing is the especial sport of certain writers, notably W. O. McGeehan who is eager to investigate the woods of Pennsylvania in company of Damon Runyon...
...University's two upper squads, there is yet one more squad. Low enough so that the melodies of the columnists pass unheard over its head, for even Grantland Rice never sang the sub-scrub, the class football squad at Harvard has entered into its Year IV with little flourish, and yet with a kind of distinction...
...respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs, and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon the Holy Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country prosper to the greater honor and glory...
...blood and brains which were infused into the Finance Ministry, last week, are those of Senator Antonio Mosconi, aged three score and two, and scion of a noble line whose ancestors began to flourish two centuries before the discovery of America...