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When he returned, Scheinschneider found the pin. Then the prosecuting attorney gave the accused a fragment of a letter. Scheinschneider gave a thoroughgoing character analysis of the writer. Then another lawyer told him the date and place of an occurrence. Scheinschneider told what had happened. Then he was given a watch. Scheinschneider identified its owner...
...Icelanders erected what U. S. correspondents described expansively last week as "miles and miles of tents" (5,000) on the great "Parliamentary Plain" or Thingvellir, where the "All Speaking" or Althing assembled 1,000 years ago near the "Parliamentary Plain Lake" of Thingvallavatn within sight of a long oval fragment of volcanic lava, the "Mount of Law" or Logberg. English correspondents, meticulous, described the excellent sanitary arrangements in the tents: "Water has been laid on and scullery facilities provided...
...Wurts, like one of the social dragonesses in The Cabala, famed novel by Thornton Niven Wilder, is a rich, enigmatic fragment in the age-old mosaic of Roman society. Tremendously dim, tremendously "important," she lives in the via dei Funari; the twisted "Street of the Rope Makers," on a floor of the Palazzo Mattei. Two other floors are occupied respectively by Principe Lodovico Mattei, himself, and by fidgety but obsequious Don Guido Antici-Mattei, a relation who is probably poor but, like rich Mrs. Wurts, tremendously dim, tremendously important to the Wurts Cabala...
There are quite a few lectures a lacarte offered for today and one table d'hote course as well. At 11 o'clock Professor Wright will discuss the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, of interest now in connection with that other broken fragment of the Constitution which concerns itself with "Prohibition," while at 12 Professor Black will explain the reflection of light to those interested in that mysterious substance without which we could not go to college. At the same hour Professor Langer will go into the intricacies of the Bulgarian problem in Harvard...
Last week, as the axe was being taken in an armored car to the annual ceremony, three young men posing as newshawks tossed a tear gas bomb into the procession, rushed the axe guards, made off with all but a small fragment of the precious implement during the mêlée. All of California's roadsters and all of her men scoured the roads leading out of Berkeley. But the sly Stanfordmen eluded them, got the axe home, hid it away. Next year Stanford's axe, unless a counter-raid is successful, will once more...