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...Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally popular, often received bottles of whiskey soon after they...
...passionate fight, antler-locked with a rival buck, for Faline, sleek and lovely mate. Dramatic is the first fleeting encounter with his father, aristocrat of animals. And not till he has proved himself worthy of his father's company does the old stag lead Bambi to a solitary haunt, and teach him the necessity of aloneness. He shows him a poacher lying foolishly shot to the ground, forces Bambi to realize that man is not all-powerful, as fawns and silly does suppose, but that there must be a higher power over...
...midnight, Bentham returns, not very "Welcome Home" from six years of South America, lets himself into his boyhood brownstone house, where not even the Irish caretaker is stirring. Memories of his late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied...
...convincing the judges that its vocalists were the better of the interdormitory singers. Next year the class of 1925 again celebrated until the matutinal hour of 3 o'clock, and furthermore supplemented its Jubilee with five acts of vaudeville from the Keith Circuit. No longer was the Jubilee the haunt of fond parents and music-lovers. The 1922 affair was a riot of color and gaiety, in fact so gay that the subsequent celebrations have been considerably altered...
Ever since he first began to feed the squirrels in the Yard, and haunt the shades of Sever--not to mention other sanctuaries--the Student Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...