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...Excerpt from a biographical sketch (by The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography): "She has pronounced athletic tastes, is an accomplished horsewoman, swims and dives as another diversion, plays the harp, and is devoted to animals and birds. She is withal a poet and composer...
...Jimmy McLarnin, Irish welterweight who wears a harp on his bathrobe, turns handsprings in the ring whenever he gets a decision, scorns any bout that brings him less than $20,000: a decision in Madison Square Garden from Negro Young Jack Thompson, in spite of the fact that Thompson had won six out of the ten rounds and that McLarnin had repeatedly been warned for hitting...
...Phyllis to Victor's villa on the Riviera (the "new" and most undesirable part); when she begins to bore him, he returns to London and gathers in his old love Sheila, the ward of a retired confidence man. Presently the harem is augmented by Helen, who plays the harp, laughs adoringly at herself, and is a little too coy for her age and looks. The women, naturally, do not get along at all well with each other; Max is first bored, then driven to despair. The weather is depressing; their landlord-neighbor turns out to fee a terrible fellow...
Little David Play on Yo' Harp...
...they had addressed regularly for a series of years on "The Sacred Duties of the Journalistic Profession", and kindred topics, have failed to apply for dates this season and, on being questioned explained that they had made arrangements to listen to certain Harvard professors, one of whom had a harp accompanist...