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...Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from the seat of a gilt chair to the top of a table, she led the two Italian actors in a cheer for Mussolini...
...Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast from the Dolly Madison service in the state dining room of the White House. Besides there were poinsettias, stevia, maidenhair ferns and French gilt candles. The builders of the tower of Babel would have been shocked if the assemblage had begun to talk in its native languages. Afterwards there was music by Mr. Schelling, Mlle. Giannini...
Several new features had been added to the makeup of last year. The binding will be flexible leather with lettering and Harvard shield in gilt. Owing to appreciative comment received by Mr. Wiener last year for the frontispiece, an airplane view of the Stadium, the editor has decided to repeat it in this year's book. The hat bands and insignia of the various clubs, instead of being scattered through the book, however, have been grouped together. The directory will contain the home and college addresses of all students and officers of the University. Other sections will be devoted...
...determination to accomplish great things. He is entering upon the last stage of his preparation to begin life on his own account. His plans are vague, but full of hope. The present is his immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head, a scroll of parchment in his hand. In the days of ancient Greece a youth with such a dream would...
...twinkled upon the gilt-and-enamel lapel buttons, vest trinkets and watch charms of many a party of Elks, Masons, Moose, Knights of this and that, Loyal Sons of the other thing, as they craned their necks and arched their chests making holiday excursions up and down the Hudson River. Last week a municipal steamboat set out from Manhattan for West Point and again the sun twinkled on a galaxy of insignia, more chaste this time than usual, dangling at the midriffs of several score of distinguished looking gentlemen...