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...week James Ramsay MacDonald can step out of No. 10 Downing St., stroll across the greensward to Buckingham Palace and "advise" King George to dissolve the House of Commons. In France power to block such dissolution is held by the Senate. In practice this joker has produced a tribe of Deputies 'and Senators in open conspiracy to keep their lucrative seats as long as possible...
Those amongst us who have harbored a lingering desire to gambol o'er the greensward unhindered by embarrassing raiment, ever since the appearance of the Merrill's famous treatise, will not have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw, New York, casting its healthful eyes over our fair land in search of a fertile field, has decided to proselyte the cause of corporate deshabille in these sickly parts. No listless campaign is in store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds...
...greensward at the north end of the Stadium field stood a portable altar flanked with thrones for the celebrants of the mass and surmounted by a tabernacle of rare woods, owned by the Baltimore Sisters of Mercy and said to be the one before which the first Maryland mass was sung. In the stands behind the altar sat 10,000 Catholic schoolchildren to chant the music of the mass. And on the hot, hard benches sat the rest of the 100,000. A bugler sounded "Attention"' at the Sanctus, Consecration and Communion, and two French 75's boomed...
...since missing from urban confines. The how and wherefore of its appearance will always remain hidden in the shrouds of mystery, but as to its disappearance no stately veil shall long hang heavy there. Complacent bovines were once, and perhaps still may be allowed to roam gracefully through the greensward, and unmolested give their milk for Harvard, but birds and even beasts of other colors are ruthlessly driven from the protecting shelter, not, alas, out merely into the humdrum whirl of exhaust-filled urbanity, but straightway to meet the ill-aimed shots of citified big game hunters; allowed no longer...
Having swept the small fry from the greensward in the Yard with their magnificent presence on Saturday, the Army Cadets scattered in all directions. Some went to eat; others became conspicuous in their grey-blue bathrobe effects at a drafty corner of Memorial Hall where they listened to a picked handful of Union Square athletes. But many climbed up into Widener for a bit of sightseeing. The turnstile area was soon clogged with cadets. Partly from curiosity and partly from necessity about a dozen stepped gingerly into the Farnsworth Room. To their complete astonishment, a scholarly young man sitting...