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...ninth or tenth day from the date of departure the body of the commander, Lieutenant du Plessis de Granadan was found in Sicilian waters by the net of a fisherman. No log among the few papers in his pockets, the failure of any carrier pigeons to return, a gleam of light seen off the coast of Sicily about the time that de Granadan's watch stopped led to the supposition that the disabled airship collapsed and exploded suddenly at her end, carrying 48 brave men to their death...
...Such scientific experiments carried on with exact instruments seem world-far from the Christmas request of The Fatherland; and yet I cannot send a better message than the results of these researches in the psychological workshop. We feel that soon the World Christmas Tree will gleam with its myriads of peaceful candle flames; at last peace on earth seems near. And yet we all hardly look forward toward such a holy night for warring mankind without the secret fear that unholy struggle may soon disrupt the peoples of the globe again, and that the new peace may be merely...
...exception of Sam Dody's dancing and the few songs of Marguerite Farrell, the rest of the work is very mediocre, especially so in contrast with the clever performance of inimitable Lew Fields. Alice Fischer as Mrs. Schniff just misses success, for occasionally she shows a truly comic gleam, but she often descends into rough-house which almost becomes vulgarity...
...almighty CRIMSON hockey team (applause!) on the Stadium rink this afternoon at 4.15 o'clock. Despite the funny face now wet with tears, despite the resounding cracks between the bony knees of the irate Ibis, the invincible CRIMSON aggregation will cause the frozen H2O on the Stadium to gleam with the brilliance of their repeated shots into the cage so futilely guarded by the erstwhile happy artists of our nutty contemp...
...touched the lake with rippling gleam...