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Bert Lowe, in person, and nine members of his first-string orchestras will furnish half the dance music. They will be supplemented by Purley Breed's nine piece orchestra. The competition for hall choruses will precede supper, and the announcement of the winner will immediately follow supper...
...Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected in such a book as this. Other nameless ones who have never had the misfortune to furnish grist for a news item will chortle with glee at Big Lord Fauntleroy (a comic story), Sssssssssshhhh (a satiric story), Spring Flow'rets or Womanhood Eternal (a sex story), will marvel at the ingenious craftsmanship, vociferate their appreciation of the smarty wit of this Punchinello, Connell. If, sometimes, they prickle...
Echoes of a perennial controversy furnish the answer. Samuel P. Langley, builder of the first airplane, died, brokenhearted, shortly after the Wrights' first flights; his own attempt to fly had failed some time previously. But it failed, many experts have thought, because Langley tried to have the flight made from a houseboat on the Potomac without provision for a suitable length of run for getaway, and not because his device was inherently deficient...
...held in the Stadium this season. He believes that the meet with M. I. T. on Saturday will be far from a practice affair for the Crimson. M. I. T. was badly beaten by Princeton last week but its showing against the Tigers revealed some individual athletes who should furnish stiff competition. The most formidable of these probably is Leness, the Engineer 880-yard man, who took first place against a big field at Princeton. In the recent Pennsylvania relays, be was timed for his leg of the medley relay race in 1.54 4-5 seconds, an exceptionally fast time...
...altogether happy. Every month he has to worry his head and fret and fuss over what there is new to divert gay, witty, accomplished people; ,what new to furnish people who would like to be thought gay, witty, accomplished. The little man is an editor, Mr. Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair...