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...chandeliers, blackening what remained of the ornate bas-reliefs and frescoes, consuming even the ranks of ivory chairs. For nearly two decades, the ruins of the 125-year-old home of the Bavarian State Opera stood as a grim souvenir of the war, a macabre memorial to its own glorious past...
...year before he killed Abraham Lincoln, his career was clouded with doom. "I must have fame-fame!" he would cry, but his grand Shakespearean voice was slipping into a chronic and desperate hoarseness, and he wildly determined to find his destiny away from the stage. "What a glorious opportunity for a man to immortalize himself by killing Abraham Lincoln!" he remarked to friends in Chicago two years before his crime...
Family Diary. At the time it seemed a stroke of luck. Surely a glorious stroke of luck that a peasant baby who had lost his mother should take the fancy of a baron's butler and be carried away to a Florentine villa to grow up as a young man of the leisure class. But if it was luck it was bad luck. The butler pampered his adopted son and then cruelly turned against him. At 18, Lorenzo found himself on the streets with a taste for champagne and no money to buy it, with a living...
...chance in this one. Harvard rarely does well against Brown under any circumstances, and it has not returned from Providence happy since 1945. Furthermore, Harvard seems to do poorly against poor teams, especially if the game comes after a big win. The Princeton win in some ways was more glorious than the Dartmouth upset, so the fall tomorrow may be even more ignoble than the Philadelphia tragedy...
...people want glorious and happy weekends, they shouldn't come to college. They should join, a labor union," John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, reportedly told the HCUA Sunday...