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...carefree American tourists, gaining in the halls of pleasure what they had lost on the fields of battle. But on the little side street by the water-front, not far from the Franz-Josef bridge, there were no bright lights. There was only the faint glow from the garret window of a weather-beaten old house, where, working far into the night, a busy scholar was translating Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" into Albanian...
...literary lights of the period. It was not long before Cardinal Richelieu heard of the meetings and, wishing to control the litterateurs as he controlled everybody else, he offered his protection and promised a royal charter to the society. Most of the habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King, and the Académie Française came into being...
Dick, so the story goes, was a poor lad who found his way to London and was taken into the service of the merchant Fitzwarren. To rid himself of the mice in his garret-bedroom, he bought a cat for a penny. As it was a custom for all the Fitzwarren servants to send something of their own in their master's ships to make a little money, Dick was virtually forced to send his cat away; but the cat caught rats for a foreign king; and the king paid enormous sums for the cat; and all this money Dick...
...scene is laid in a Greenwich Village garret. The prosaic daily, or more appropriately, nightly routine of four young Villagers, male, is jarred by the unconscious arrival of one more Villager, female. She is banged in the head by a brutal escort four stories below (although, to let you into a secret, the irate voices really come from the orchestra). The young men gallantly offer her succor, and abandon their apartment to her for the night when it appears that she is unable to leave...
HARVARD HAVERFORD Fitton, g g., Marshall Phaneuf, r. f. b. r. f. b., Fisher Greenidge (Capt), l. f. b. l. f. b., Garret Pattison, r. h. b. r. h. b., Thomas Brooks, c. h. b. c. h. b., Wood Tarnowsky, l. h. b. l. h. b., Longstreth Tuttle, r. o. f. r. o. f., Richie (Capt.) Wright, r. i. f. r. i. f., Starbuck Lamont, c. f. c. f., Burton Barnes, l. i. f. l i. f. Baker Eidridge, l. o. f. l. o. f., Wiley...